Synthetic Data for Social Good

Understand

Data for good implies unfettered access to data.

• But data owners must be conservative about how, when, and why they share data or risk violating the trust of the people they aim to help, losing their funding, or breaking the law.
• Data sharing agreements can help prevent privacy violations, but require a level of specificity that is premature during preliminary discussions, and can take over a year to establish.
• We consider the generation and use of synthetic data to facilitate ad hoc collaborations involving sensitive data.