Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
The Open Loop Uruguay program was launched in tandem with a twin policy prototyping program in Brazil, with the aim of guiding and enabling companies in Uruguay to leverage and select privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to help de-identify data and mitigate privacy-related risks. In this initiative, ten organizations in Uruguay engaged in testing a prototype PETs Playbook devised to help organizations connect data protection expectations with the selection of suitable PETs. This program was led by Meta’s Open Loop team, the Eon Resilience Lab of C Minds, in collaboration with the Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento (AGESIC) and the Unidad Reguladora y de Control de Datos Personales (URCDP) of Uruguay and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Deployment Period | September 2022 - April 2023
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This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Open Loop Uruguay program. Through desk research, interviews, surveys and workshops, the policy prototyping program investigated:
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Main Findings & Recommendations
The program’s outcomes resulted in several notable recommendations to guide and enable companies in Uruguay to leverage and select privacy-enhancing technologies, including:
A flexible, risk-based approach to anonymization
Measuring the level of risk should be a fact-specific assessment and should focus on whether parties who might realistically get access to the data could re-identify the data.
Processing data
Policymakers should clarify that entities can process data for the purpose of reducing the risk of identifiability.
Advancing multi-stakeholder dialogues
Not only could these conversations help to build entities’ capacities to deploy PETs, but they could also make progress on developing a shared understanding of PETs.
Direct investment in PETs research and development
Policymakers could also fund R&D into open-source PETs implementations, which could be more readily used off-the-shelf by small and medium entities.
Regulatory sandboxes
Policymakers are encouraged to explore the above topics more thoroughly through regulatory sandboxes.
This twin-program was run concurrently with a program in Brazil
Partners & Observers
This program was led by Meta’s Open Loop team, the Eon Resilience Lab of C Minds, in collaboration with the Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento (AGESIC) and the Unidad Reguladora y de Control de Datos Personales (URCDP) of Uruguay and the Inter-American Development Bank.
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