This blog post was originally published on LinkedIn on 05/15/2023
We’re joyful to announce that Hugging Face has been chosen by the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) to profit from its Enhanced Support program!
This latest program picked three firms with “strong potential for economic development” out of over 40 candidates, who will receive support in understanding and implementing their duties with respect to data protection –
a frightening and essential endeavor within the context of the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence.
On the subject of respecting people’s privacy rights, the recent developments in ML and AI pose latest questions, and engender latest challenges.
Now we have been particularly sensitive to those challenges in our own work at Hugging Face and in our collaborations.
The BigScience Workshop that we hosted in collaboration with tons of of researchers from many various countries and institutions
was the primary Large Language Model training effort to visibly put privacy front and center,
through a multi-pronged approach covering data selection and governance, data processing, and model sharing.
The more moderen BigCode project co-hosted with ServiceNow also dedicated significant resources to addressing privacy risks,
creating latest tools to support pseudonymization that may profit other projects.
These efforts help us higher understand what’s technically essential and feasible at various levels of the AI development process so we will higher address legal requirements and risks tied to non-public data.
The accompaniment program from the CNIL, benefiting from its expertise and role as France’s Data Protection Agency,
will play an instrumental role in supporting our broader efforts to push GDPR compliance forward and supply clarity for our community of users on questions of privacy and data protection.
We sit up for working together on addressing these questions with more foresight, and helping develop amazing latest ML technology that does respect people’s data rights!
