We sat down with Patricia Thaine to talk about the current state of the privacy space, identifying PII with high accuracy, generating synthetic personal information, and what’s the right culture for building a privacy-focused company.

Patricia is the co-founder and CEO of Private AI. Started by privacy and machine learning experts from the University of Toronto, Private AI’s mission is to build the privacy layer for software. 

0:00 - The state of data privacy

2:16 - Private AI approach to remove private information

11:48 - Generating synthetic personal information

14:00 - Case studies

20:30 - Optimizing NLP models to run efficiently and annotating data

23:57 - Starting Private AI, recruiting customers, raising funds

34:20 - Acquiring the initial dataset to train the models

36:50 - The culture for the privacy-focussed company

42:30 - The future of the privacy space

Links:

Web: https://www.private-ai.com

Blog: https://www.private-ai.com/blog/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/private-ai/

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