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Differential privacy provides a system that can allow the sharing of databases without allowing an external observer to determine if a particular individual was included.

If companies were required to aggregate information in this way and throw away their logs, perhaps leaks would be much less risky for their users.

Today this might seem far-fetched, but it could come to pass in the future, when people raised in this environment and able to understand the implications and technical aspects come to political power.

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/privacybook.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy

parent inciampati 6 years ago

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