Apple taking an ‘immense risk’ with user data thanks to poor implementation of differential privacy, say academics

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: September 18, 2017 at 2:49:54 PM EDT
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> Subject: Apple taking an ‘immense risk’ with user data thanks to poor implementation of differential privacy, say 
> academics
>
> Apple taking an ‘immense risk’ with user data thanks to poor implementation of differential privacy, say academics
>
> Researchers at three universities have accused Apple of taking an ‘immense risk’ with the security of user data 
> thanks to what they say is a poor implementation of differential privacy.
>
> Differential privacy is a method of allowing Apple and other companies to analyse user data in a way intended to be 
> completely anonymous. Enough noise is injected into the data that it is supposed to be impossible to match any of 
> that data to a specific individual.
>
> However, security researchers have for the second time questioned how well Apple’s implementation works in practice …
>
> https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/18/how-secure-is-apples-differential-privacy/
>
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