How GDPR will change the way we build machine learning algorithms

On Tuesday, a new report from O'Reilly outlined the current state of machine learning adoption in the enterprise and how recent political moves have affected it. With the EU's recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates, more companies will begin to implement privacy safeguards into their machine learning practices. The new policies, however, happen to coincide with more tools and methods evolving that deal with privacy-preserving analytics and machine learning, the report noted. The report noted that GDPR pushes for "privacy by design," meaning that data protection should be included when a system is being developed, rather than be added later. Similarly, more businesses are taking interest in privacy-preserving analytic methods.