PRIVACY & FEDERATION

Data stays where it lives.

AURORA's privacy posture is structural: federation by default, no central data lake, signed updates between sites, opt-in telemetry. This page explains the rules in plain language.

no central lakeDP budgets per registryopt-in telemetry
I · What we do

Federation, not extraction.

AURORA does not collect patient data. Pilot sites run AURORA on-prem or inside their own VPC. The federation runtime traverses signed model updates between sites; it does not move patient records. Differential-privacy budgets are enforced per registry; auditing is on by default.

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II · What we don't

A short, honest list.

  • We do not hold a central database of patient records. There is none.
  • We do not have a "model training" pipeline that ingests patient data from pilot sites. Training is federated.
  • We do not sell, license or share data with third parties. We have no data to sell.
  • We do not track website visitors. No analytics tags, no Facebook pixels, no Google Tag Manager.
  • We do not enable opt-out telemetry in modules. Telemetry, if it exists for a deployment, is opt-in and off by default.
III · Technical details

The runtime, in plain English.

01

Outbound mTLS only

Federation does not need open inbound ports. Sites open an outbound mTLS connection to the federation control plane.

02

Signed updates

Every model update is Sigstore-signed. The audit log records which site contributed which update, when, on what hash.

03

DP budgets

Differential-privacy budgets are configured per registry and enforced by the runtime. Budgets surface in the audit log.

04

Consent metadata

Cohort policies travel with the data. Subsystems refuse to run on records that lack the matching consent.

05

On-prem & air-gap

Full air-gapped Helm and OCI bundles are first-class. Telemetry is opt-in and off by default.

06

Provenance

Pinned commit + container digest + weights hash + dataset hash. Every run is re-runnable, every artefact attributable.

IV · Your rights

You're talking to a collective, not a company.

If you are a patient whose data sits in a pilot-site registry, your rights run through that institution under its local law (GDPR, HIPAA, India DPDP, etc.). AURORA's substrate does not change those rights. We strongly support them.

If a pilot site runs AURORA on your data, the institution still owns the relationship with you. We will not, and structurally cannot, override that.

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