Project description DEENESFRITPL Data analytics and cryptography for privacy preservation To address customers’ needs, organisations rely on large volumes of user data combined with tailored statistical analysis to adapt their services accordingly. Machine learning models are being applied in applications. However, such service improvements and personalisation based on user data analysis increases the risk of privacy loss. Moreover, systems using such models incorporate often inexact, biased, and unfair proxies. The EU-funded HARPOCRATES project will lay the foundation for digitally blind evaluation systems designed to eliminate proxies. The project plans to design several practical cryptographic schemes (functional encryption and hybrid homomorphic encryption) for analysing data in a way that preserves privacy and enables a comprehensive approach where data analytics and cryptography are associated with increased privacy. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Availability of large volumes of user data combined with tailored statistical analysis present a unique opportunity for organizations across the spectrum to adapt and finetune their services according to individual needs. Having shown remarkable results in analyzing user data, machine learning models attracted global adulation and are applied in a plethora of applications including medical diagnostics, pattern recognition, and threat intelligence. However, such service improvements and personalization based on user data analysis come at the heavy cost of privacy loss. Furthermore, practice showed that systems that use such models incorporate proxies that are often inexact, biased and often unfair. In HARPOCRATES, we focus on setting the foundations of digitally blind evaluation systems that will, by design, eliminate proxies such as geography, gender, race, and others and eventually have a tangible impact on building fairer, democratic and unbiased societies. To do so, we plan to design several practical cryptographic schemes (Functional Encryption and Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption) for analyzing data in a privacy-preserving way. Besides processing statistical data in a privacy-preserving way, we also aim to enable a richer, more balanced and comprehensive approach where data analytics and cryptography go hand in hand with a shift towards increased privacy. In HARPOCRATES we will first show how to effectively combine cryptography with the principles of differential privacy to secure and privatise databases. Next, we will build privacy-preserving machine learning models able to classify encrypted data by performing high accuracy predictions directly on ciphertexts across federated data spaces. Finally, to demonstrate how these solutions respond to users’ needs, we will implement two real-world cross-border data sharing scenarios related to health data analysis for sleep medicine and threat intelligence for local authorities. Fields of science medical and health sciencesclinical medicinepsychiatrysleep disordersnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptographynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencepattern recognitionnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning Keywords Threat intelligence Functional Encryption Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption Differential Privacy Multiparty Computation Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Programme(s) HORIZON.2.3 - Civil Security for Society Main Programme HORIZON.2.3.3 - Cybersecurity Topic(s) HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01-04 - Scalable privacy-preserving technologies for cross-border federated computation in Europe involving personal data Call for proposal HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Coordinator TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR Net EU contribution € 769 750,00 Address Kalevantie 4 33100 Tampere Finland See on map Region Manner-Suomi Länsi-Suomi Pirkanmaa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB Sweden Net EU contribution € 526 750,00 Address Brinellgatan 4 501 15 Boras See on map Region Södra Sverige Västsverige Västra Götalands län Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 TRILATERAL RESEARCH LIMITED Ireland Net EU contribution € 314 375,00 Address Fdw house blackthorn business park coes road Dundalk louth See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Ireland Eastern and Midland Mid-East Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 PRIVREDNO DRUSTVO ZENTRIX LAB DRUSTVO SA OGRANICENOM ODGOVORNOSCU PANCEVO Serbia Net EU contribution € 294 000,00 Address Milosa trebinjca 10 26000 Pancevo See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Србија - север Регион Војводине Јужнобанатска област Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 CANARY BIT AB Sweden Net EU contribution € 420 375,00 Address Akervagen 46a 191 40 Sollentuna See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. 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