FL4Health is a Vector Institute toolkit for building modular, clinically-focused FL pipelines. Tailored for healthcare, it supports privacy-preserving FL, heterogeneous data settings, integrated reporting, and clear API design.
Protect sensitive data that has been deleted from recovery.
...In short: The DATA contained in that file still remains, and can be recovered. This can quickly become a security concern.
There are various areas of business where this scenario is unacceptable: HIPAA Protected Medical Information, and Financial Data amongst them. Client Data must be protected from recovery in the event of theft. Blue-Pencil was created to fulfill that.
"Blue-Pencil" protects sensitive data by "sanitizing" it - writing over it using special patterns designed to make data unrecoverable by traditional means before deletion thus keeping the data safe from prying eyes.