Journal of Medical Internet Research (Mar 2023)

mHealth Systems Need a Privacy-by-Design Approach: Commentary on “Federated Machine Learning, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, and Data Protection Laws in Medical Research: Scoping Review”

  • Ambuj Tewari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2196/46700
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25
p. e46700

Abstract

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Brauneck and colleagues have combined technical and legal perspectives in their timely and valuable paper “Federated Machine Learning, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, and Data Protection Laws in Medical Research: Scoping Review.” Researchers who design mobile health (mHealth) systems must adopt the same privacy-by-design approach that privacy regulations (eg, General Data Protection Regulation) do. In order to do this successfully, we will have to overcome implementation challenges in privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy. We will also have to pay close attention to emerging technologies such as private synthetic data generation.