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Algorithmic disgorgement

An enforcement remedy, most notably used by the US Federal Trade Commission, requiring destruction of a model or algorithm derived from unlawfully collected data, treating the model as a fruit of the unlawful collection in the same way courts treat ill-gotten financial gains as subject to disgorgement.

Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 9 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.

How each discipline defines it

The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.

AI Data Governance: The Data Chair

An enforcement remedy, most notably used by the US Federal Trade Commission, requiring destruction of a model or algorithm derived from unlawfully collected data, treating the model as a fruit of the unlawful collection in the same way courts treat ill-gotten financial gains as subject to disgorgement.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

An enforcement remedy (used by the United States Federal Trade Commission) ordering deletion of a model and the data it was trained on. Named here to contrast the mandatory pile (a real legal consequence) with the voluntary pile (a certificate, which cannot prevent such a remedy). (see Topic 6.1)

Business AI Transformation

A remedy, used by the US FTC, requiring a company to delete models and algorithms trained on improperly obtained data. Severe because it can destroy the core asset a business was built on.

AI Data Governance: The Data Chair

A regulatory remedy, most notably used by the US FTC, requiring destruction not only of improperly obtained data but of any algorithm or model trained on it.

AI Data Governance: The Data Chair

A regulatory remedy, most clearly demonstrated by the US Federal Trade Commission's 2021 order against Everalbum, Inc., requiring an organization to delete or destroy not only unlawfully collected data but also the models or algorithms built using that data.

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