This document discusses the use of synthetic data as an alternative to sharing real data. It describes how synthetic data is generated using a data simulator to replicate real data distributions while protecting privacy. The key benefits of synthetic data are that it allows data sharing without privacy risks, and various methods like partial synthesis and full synthesis can be used to control the privacy-utility tradeoff. Proper techniques and controls need to be applied to generate synthetic data that sufficiently preserves the utility of the original data.