Presentation from Google to the EDPS on advances in Privacy Enhanced Technologies (PETs) included in their product portfolio

All EDPS staff is invited to the meeting including Heads of Units and Senior Management

Agenda

• Challenges in moving Privacy Enhancing Technologies from lab to actual products

Transparency Register number: 03181945560-59

Meeting minutes

The EDPS held a second in a series of workshops with Big Tech companies on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. The meeting with Google covered Generative AI’s rapid advancement: foundational understanding of generative AI (GAI); novel challenges for privacy and data protection; its intersection with privacy and data protection, and state-of-the-art privacy-enhancing techniques and technologies (PETs) being developed and deployed at Google. 

Session 1: GenAI & Privacy 

• GenAI Fundamentals;
• GenAI privacy considerations.

Session 2: Introduction to Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and Deep Dive on Synthetic Data 

• PETs as core infrastructure;
• Synthetic Data;
• Pragmatic Principles for Deployment and Testing and Technical Guidance.

Session 3: PETs in Practice at Google 

• The landscape of PETs;
• Where PETs can be applied;
• PETs in products.