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Every year, the gap between what marketers need from analytics and what privacy regulations allow them to collect narrows a little. For instance, as of 2025, GDPR enforcement fines have\u00a0<\/a>crossed \u20ac7.1 billion<\/a>\u00a0in cumulative penalties, and part of the reason is the multitude of reporting technologies available today that may not comply with privacy regulations.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just one example of how non-compliance with privacy regulations can result in hefty fines. And yet, the default approach to analytics hasn\u2019t changed much: collect as much behavioural data as possible, centralise it and build your reports on the full dataset. Attribution models, conversion tracking, audience segmentation: all of it depends on large volumes of raw data sitting in one place.<\/p>\n

But with regulations tightening, that model is under pressure. And it\u2019s not just regulators applying pressure. Users are opting out of tracking by rejecting cookies and choosing privacy-focused browsers and extensions with built-in protections.<\/p>\n

Federated learning takes a different approach. Instead of dragging raw data to a central server, it sends the model to where the data already lives. Be it on user devices, on local servers and inside your own infrastructure. While it\u2019s still a maturing technology, it\u2019s already influencing how analytics tools are built and how privacy-conscious organisations think about their data strategy.<\/p>\n

In this guide, we\u2019ll explain the concept of federated learning, how it works, where it\u2019s already being applied and how you can apply its principles to your web analytics solution.<\/p>\n

What is federated learning?<\/h2>\n

Federated learning is a way of training machine learning models without moving the data they learn from. It doesn\u2019t involve collecting data and moving it to a central location. Instead, it brings the model to the data.<\/p>\n

The process works in a cycle:<\/p>\n