This explainer document aims to provide an overview of the current state of the rapidly expanding work on synthetic data technologies, with a particular focus on privacy. The article is intended for a non-technical audience, though some formal definitions have been given to provide clarity to specialists. This article is intended to enable the reader to quickly become familiar with the notion of synthetic data, as well as understand some of the subtle intricacies that come with it. We do believe that synthetic data is a very useful tool, and our hope is that this report highlights that, while drawing attention to nuances that can easily be overlooked in its deployment.

翻译：本解释文件旨在概述合成数据技术方面迅速扩大的工作的现状,特别侧重于隐私问题,本条款是针对非技术受众的,虽然已经给出一些正式定义,以向专家提供明确性,但本条款旨在使读者能够迅速熟悉合成数据的概念,并了解随之而来的一些微妙的复杂情况。我们确实认为合成数据是一个非常有用的工具,我们希望本报告强调这一点,同时提请注意在使用合成数据时很容易被忽视的细微差别。