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Privacy‑Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Privacy
Category of technical methods that reduce privacy risk during collection, processing, or sharing.
Definition
PETs include techniques such as encryption, differential privacy, secure multi-party computation, secure aggregation, federated learning, and tokenization. They are often combined with governance and access control.
In plain English
Category of technical methods that reduce privacy risk during collection, processing, or sharing.
Why this matters
Why it matters: PETs can reduce exposure while preserving utility, but they require correct implementation and threat modeling.
Example
Example: Combine secure aggregation + differential privacy to produce analytics while limiting inference about any individual.