We sat down with Patricia Thaine to talk about the current state of the privacy space, identifying PII with high accuracy, generating synthetic personal information, and what’s the right culture for building a privacy-focused company.
Patricia is the co-founder and CEO of Private AI. Started by privacy and machine learning experts from the University of Toronto, Private AI’s mission is to build the privacy layer for software.
0:00 - The state of data privacy
2:16 - Private AI approach to remove private information
11:48 - Generating synthetic personal information
14:00 - Case studies
20:30 - Optimizing NLP models to run efficiently and annotating data
23:57 - Starting Private AI, recruiting customers, raising funds
34:20 - Acquiring the initial dataset to train the models
36:50 - The culture for the privacy-focussed company
42:30 - The future of the privacy space
Links:
Web: https://www.private-ai.com
Blog: https://www.private-ai.com/blog/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/private-ai/
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