Governance rules in the Linksight platform

Governance rules play an important role in the Linksight platform in facilitating privacy-friendly data collaborations. Governance rules are a set of agreements that organizations agree upon (in the Linksight Governance Hub). The rules are established because an organization wants to maintain control over its own data and does not want to give ‘carte blanche’ to other organizations in the data collaboration. The rules therefore determine the scope within which an organization participates in a data collaboration.

In data collaborations that work with the Linksight platform, these rules are recorded in the platform and also technically enforced. This means that if a rule is violated, a user cannot perform a certain action or an analysis is stopped.

The governance rules that are jointly established are confirmed by each party through a voting procedure. Only after everyone has agreed are the (new) rules in effect and can analyses be performed. For complete clarity and transparency, the audit log records who proposed which rules and the voting behavior of the organizations in the data collaboration.

In addition to these governance rules, each organization can attach policies to each dataset that restrict its use (including whether an attribute can be used in calculations or can only be used as a filter).

In the attached document you will find more information about the governance rules in the Linksight platform.