As we discussed in an earlier blog post, large tech firms have made it their business to commercialize our personal data. This is neither surprising nor revelatory, as user data is the primary asset of these firms. That being said, the recent exposure of the Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data has begun to have …
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Recent revelations from Facebook have highlights again how the business of data puts the privacy of wide populations at risk. Many of the largest and most successful companies, such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and more build highly profitable businesses by deriving insights from our personal information to better sell us products. More efficient sales and …
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Whenever a running program needs to do anything useful – such as write to a file or open a network connection – it has to temporarily hand control of the processor to the kernel to carry out the job. This mode switching between programs and the kernel are potentially time consuming. In order to be …
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In the design of Duality SecurePlus™ Insights, we are often faced with a scenario where there are two entities, a model-owning organization that holds a machine learning model and a data owning organization that holds data that it wants to be classified using the model (a very similar scenario arises in the Duality SecurePlus Collaboration Platform as …
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