IAPP Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) — Question 54

A company initially intended to use a large data set containing personal information to train an AI model. After consideration, the company determined that it can derive enough value from the data set without any personal information and permanently obfuscated all personal data elements before training the model.
This is an example of applying which privacy-enhancing technique (PET)?

Answer options

• A. Anonymization.
• B. Pseudonymization.
• C. Differential privacy.
• D. Federated learning.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A, Anonymization, since the company permanently removed all personal data elements, ensuring that individuals cannot be identified. The other options, such as Pseudonymization, which still allows for re-identification, and Differential privacy, which adds noise to data, do not apply in this scenario as the data was completely obfuscated.