Definition

Fides is ethyca’s open-source data governance ontology/language for describing data and permitted uses in a machine-readable form shared across privacy, security, and AI teams.

Key Points

  • Open-sourced 2021; claimed widely used OSS data governance ontology
  • Named customers using Fides: New York Times, Condé Nast, Ramp
  • Underpins astralis runtime enforcement

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