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Can you expand on the privacy use case? I don't understand how applying a word vector model on the client improves privacy.
by rpedela 9y ago
Can you expand on the privacy use case? I don't understand how applying a word vector model on the client improves privacy.
- darawk 9y agoYou presumably do not have to ship the content of the user's query up to the server.
- rpedela 9y agoHow does that improve privacy in this case? The sort of queries that can be made against a word vector model, and only a word vector model, are pretty trivial.
- dougb5 9y agoThe tool I made works with local data -- it analyzes your Google search history from a file on your disk. You can filter it by specifying a topic, which is then matched semantically against the search queries in your history using the word vectors. Given the sensitive nature of this data, I felt it important not to send these topic queries (nor any of the raw search history queries) to a remote server. I can also imagine using the word vectors to do a topic clustering of the search history.