Entitlement Enforcement in Data Privacy Pipelines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data sharing practices face challenges due to issues with data privacy, confidentiality, and control, particularly in industries like healthcare and banking, which hinder collaborative intelligence development and progress.
Innovation Solution
A constrained environment, such as a data trustee environment, is established to manage shielded assets, allowing for the chaining, triggering, and enforcement of entitlements, enabling beneficiaries to use data within specified constraints and policies without exposing raw data, and allowing for flexible access and usage of intermediate datasets in data privacy pipelines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If data sharing is implemented to bridge gaps in datasets, then dataset completeness and collaborative intelligence are improved, but data privacy, confidentiality, and control concerns worsen
Solution Approach 1:
A constrained environment acts as an intermediary between data grantors and beneficiaries. The environment enforces entitlements that allow data to be shared and processed while maintaining privacy and confidentiality constraints, resolving the contradiction between data completeness and privacy protection
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments data access into discrete entitlements with specific constraints and policies. Each entitlement can be independently managed and enforced, allowing selective data sharing that maintains overall dataset completeness while protecting sensitive information through granular control
2Reliability
If traditional data sharing approval processes are used, then data control and security are maintained, but system complexity and operational overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
Entitlements are established in advance with predefined constraints and policies before data sharing occurs. The constrained environment automatically enforces these pre-established rules during data processing, eliminating the need for continuous manual approval while maintaining security and control
Solution Approach 2:
The constrained environment automatically enforces entitlement constraints and policies without requiring manual intervention. The system self-manages data access control by evaluating and applying pre-defined entitlements, reducing operational overhead while maintaining reliable data security
3Reliability
If entitlement outputs are restricted to constrained environments, then data privacy and control are improved, but flexibility for downstream operations is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically manages data access through enforceable entitlements that can be applied to various downstream operations. The constrained environment adapts its enforcement behavior based on the specific operation and entitlement constraints, maintaining privacy while enabling flexible data processing
Solution Approach 2:
Entitlements are designed to be universally applicable across multiple downstream operations and contexts. A single entitlement can govern access for various computational steps, data processing operations, and collaborative intelligence tasks, providing both privacy protection and operational flexibility
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments are directed to techniques for enforcing entitlements used by data privacy pipelines. When a data consumer requests to trigger a pipeline that relies on an entitlement, an enforcement mechanism may operate to verify the data consumer's triggering of the pipeline will satisfy the entitlements. A rules engine may access all root entities of the pipeline that require an entitlement, load all contracts and/or corresponding pipelines that reference one of the root entities, and search for one valid access path through the loaded contracts/pipelines. If multiple contracts and/or multiple access paths allow access to a particular root entity, various conflict rules may be configured to choose which contract and access path to use. If all root entities have a valid access path, the constrained environment may execute the requested pipeline using the identified access path for each root entity.