About this Research Topic
Growing access to vast global datasets, coupled with the emerging power of artificial intelligence, could be transformational. Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are innovative tools embedded in privacy by design. Their objective is to safeguard privacy and security while enabling large-scale data utilization, processing, and analysis between different parties. By facilitating the utilization of vast datasets across institutions and nations, PETs are set to revolutionize multiple sectors, including healthcare, mobility, and energy. For instance PETs stand to profoundly impact society by promoting precision medicine and personalized treatments while simultaneously addressing concerns regarding data privacy, security, and trust.
PETs are one of the Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2024, as announced in the report published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Frontiers (World Economic Forum, 2024).
The research topic explores the potentials of PETS to foster data utilization across institutes, nations, to promote precision medicine and personalized healthcare. We ask for manuscripts that address one or more aspects of:
1. Potentials of PET techniques, like secure multiparty computation, synthetic data, federated learning, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proof, trusted execution environments.
2. PETs and AI
i. Responsible AI and PETs
ii. Synthetic data and AI training
iii. The application of PETs to assure data quality of the (privacy sensitive) inputs, e.g. Zero-Knowledge Proof
3. Implementation of PETs in practice:
i. Willingness to share data (trust, attitude)
ii. Data governance (law, regulations, ownership), data-infrastructure to re-use data
iii. Legal/policy/ethical aspects of PETs
4. User-centric privacy controls (self sovereign identity, anonymous credentials, anonymous communication)
5. New applications with PETs
i. Precision medicine
ii. Personalized healthcare
iii. Data enrichment by sharing sensitive data
This topic welcomes all article types accepted by Frontiers in Digital Health and Frontiers in Big Data.
PETs are one of the Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2024, as announced in the report published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Frontiers (World Economic Forum, 2024).
The research topic explores the potentials of PETS to foster data utilization across institutes, nations, to promote precision medicine and personalized healthcare. We ask for manuscripts that address one or more aspects of:
1. Potentials of PET techniques, like secure multiparty computation, synthetic data, federated learning, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proof, trusted execution environments.
2. PETs and AI
i. Responsible AI and PETs
ii. Synthetic data and AI training
iii. The application of PETs to assure data quality of the (privacy sensitive) inputs, e.g. Zero-Knowledge Proof
3. Implementation of PETs in practice:
i. Willingness to share data (trust, attitude)
ii. Data governance (law, regulations, ownership), data-infrastructure to re-use data
iii. Legal/policy/ethical aspects of PETs
4. User-centric privacy controls (self sovereign identity, anonymous credentials, anonymous communication)
5. New applications with PETs
i. Precision medicine
ii. Personalized healthcare
iii. Data enrichment by sharing sensitive data
This topic welcomes all article types accepted by Frontiers in Digital Health and Frontiers in Big Data.
Keywords: PETs, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Emerging Technology, health data, security, data sharing, precision medicine, trust, synthetic data, secure multiparty computation, data governance
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
