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So, here's a question then, assuming that's true, why send it? If its been so thoroughly anonymized that nothing useful can be gleaned from it, why bother sendi
by orclev 11y ago
So, here's a question then, assuming that's true, why send it? If its been so thoroughly anonymized that nothing useful can be gleaned from it, why bother sending it in the first place? If it is possible to derive useful info from it, that seems to directly contradict the idea that no sensitive information is going to be exposed (there being no realistic way to programmatically identity only sensitive information without some very specific domain knowledge). You can't have it both ways, either the info isn't useful in which case they have reason to transmit it, or else it's exposing potentially sensitive information and they shouldn't be transmitting it.
- ewzimm 11y agoI can only speculate, but I would guess it goes something like this: You type "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." You continue typing other stuff. 30 minutes later, there's a queue of random slices like: { "lazy dog", "chocolate donut", "brown fox" }. That gets encrypted and sent into a big pile of other data for a machine learning algorithm to develop better typing prediction. I would like to know if that's the gist of it or if there are other things happening. Hopefully there will at least be a developer blog or something like that to better explain it.