Data Processing Agreement for Data Sharing by Microsoft

With GDPR (General Data Processing Regulation) in place since 2018, the European Union has been making data processing tough for researchers & data miners with malicious desire. Likewise, many new data processing agreements stole the show, such as India’s Personal Data Protection Bill and Canada’s PIPEDA.

Brazil’s General Data Protection Law and California’s Consumer Privacy Act are yet to come into the picture of their data manipulation regulations in 2020. Before them, Microsoft has taken revolutionary initiative. It is likely to introduce three data sharing agreements. For now, they have been put on a trial mode.

Azure Data Share:
Microsoft has already debuted Azure Data Share. It enables companies to share colossal sized data sets among them securely, unlike data sharing through FTP or web APIs. The web research & development industry requires it for processing data to research useful patterns. This share will make it faster for data sharing under highly secured IT network.  

Let’s get through what agreements have been under the trial by Microsoft.

Data Sharing Agreements By Microsoft: The tech giant has initiated three proposals. Catch what these are:

1. Open Use of Data Agreement: This is basically a provision for abandoning the use of personal data. The data processing services providers turn blindfolded while utilizing open data sets. This data agreement implication can bar them from doing so. 
2. Computational Use of Data Agreement: This agreement is proposed to share data sets gotten from publically available sources for training Artificial Intelligence (AI). The data mining services providers have to ink a deal with the third parties to prohibit the inclusion of any personal data & copyright-covered data like snippets. It straightly bans the republishing or redistribution of shielded data sets. 
3. Data Use Agreement for Open AI Model Development: This agreement sticks around privacy-protected data or the data which may be underlying the control of the data owners. 

Microsoft is looking forward to flatten the roadblocks of data sharing across companies conveniently.  The biggest challenges in this way are inconsistencies, lack of standardized data-sharing terms and licensing agreements. These proposals of agreements will fill those anomalies.
However, the tech-giant has put them under-trial for getting community feedback and input on them. Some of these terms will be available on its GitHub code sharing site. 

In the nutshell, the fourth industrial revolution requires data processing and sharing agreements as an urgency to keep data breaching at bay.