The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has announced the initial winners in the joint UK-US privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) challenge. Out of 76 entries, 12 have won £138,000 in prize money and will move out of Phase I of the contest due to their "state-of-the-art approaches to privacy-preserving federated learning." The remaining entrants will participate in Phase II of the competition. Information Commissioner John Edwards said, "PETs can help organisations share and use people's data responsibly, lawfully and securely."
The UK-winning organisations are:
- Corvus Research Limited
- DeepMind and OpenMined*
- Diagonal Works
- GMV
- Faculty
- Featurespace Limited
- Privitar Limited
- University of Cambridge
- University of Liverpool
The US winners are:
Team MusCAT: researchers from the Broad Institute, MIT, Harvard Business School, UT Austin, University of Toronto
Team IBM Research
Team Secret Computers: researchers from Inpher, Inc.
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