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Thanks a lot for your reply. Do you think Google is serious about differential privacy? Also, I wonder whether the fact that most comments on this thread come

• altgoogler 6y ago
  > Do you think Google is serious about differential privacy? IMHO, Yes, very much so. There are lots of other initiatives as well (can't find a public link at the moment). > and not FB's, is saying something... I don't think they are an evil company either, but they were somewhat cavalier with handling PII until recently. This is why I support stronger personal and data privacy laws. It's very easy to mishandle info, even with the best of intentions. Take a look at Zoom, which prioritized ease-of-use over security and privacy. This is another example of why I think people shouldn't worry (first) about FAANG, they should worry about the much smaller players that don't receive nearly as much scrutiny.
  • summerlight 6y ago
    To add more flavors on differential privacy efforts inside Google; yes, when someone tries to launch something non-trivial then privacy reviewers will very likely ask them to apply differential privacy techniques where it's possible. This is causing lots of frictions on engineers who's not familiar with privacy issues, but in a good way.