Privacy infrastructure at scale
Learn how distributed systems failures undermine user preference enforcement, and why enterprises must rethink consent as infrastructure to meet modern privacy expectations.

Privacy Infrastructure at Scale: Solving the Synchronization Problem
As enterprises grow more reliant on complex, distributed systems, the ability to consistently enforce user preferences has become a fundamental challenge, and a major source of compliance risk. In this whitepaper, Ethyca explores how fragmented architectures fail to synchronize consent and preference signals, leading to breakdowns in trust, regulatory exposure, and operational inefficiency.
You’ll learn how issues like schema mismatches, race conditions, and third-party integration delays create systemic failure modes—and how Ethyca’s Fides platform solves them by treating preference management as infrastructure. Through unified taxonomy, centralized orchestration, and real-time enforcement, Fides enables scalable privacy controls that span modern and legacy systems alike.
Whether you're modernizing your privacy stack or designing new infrastructure, this whitepaper provides a technical roadmap for building systems that respect user choices by design.
Michael Brown
Michael leads product development for Ethyca’s privacy infrastructure, including Helios and the Fides open-source platform. With a background in systems architecture and developer experience, he focuses on building tools that bring real-time observability and automation to enterprise privacy operations. His work bridges the gap between compliance and engineering, enabling teams to manage data responsibly without slowing down innovation.
CEO & Founder, EthycaCillian Kieran
As founder of Ethyca, Cillian is pioneering automated approaches to data privacy and governance. His work with global enterprises like Heineken, Sony, and Dell has shaped Ethyca's mission to make privacy engineering accessible and scalable. Under his leadership, Ethyca has developed breakthrough open-source privacy tools that help organizations automate compliance and build user trust programmatically.
Learn how to address the root causes of preference enforcement failures in distributed systems. This whitepaper offers a practical guide to replacing fragmented consent logic with centralized infrastructure, enabling real-time synchronization of user choices across modern and legacy platforms.
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Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca
Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca
Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca