The MAPA toolkit: sharing your data privately

Think of all the data sources which include your personal information within the public administration services; be it bank account details, financial or medical records, tax information, etc. We often take it for granted that our data is safe and protected. However, what happens when this information is shared among different public administration entities? In reality, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws safeguard the general public by limiting what data can be shared among entities, requiring that the data be anonymised before it is shared among different entities, including those within the public administration. The Multilingual Anonymisation for Public Administration (MAPA) Project is a European-funded project which is developing an open-source toolkit that enables effective and reliable text anonymisation, focusing on the medical and legal domains.