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Google and federated analytics: an effective tool in privacy signalling

by exanimo_sai on 7/7/20, 12:40 AM with 1 comments

  • by seven4 on 7/7/20, 12:58 AM

    The original google blog post being referenced - http://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/federated-analytics-collabo...

    ‘A ctrl+f for ‘privacy’ brought the word up thirteen times – the subtext was very much ‘at Google, we think about privacy’. But what makes this particularly interesting is that decentralised data analysis isn’t a new concept and didn’t find its origins in privacy.'