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That's not the only trust model at play. Here is a different example of where FHE becomes very useful. Cancer researchers will benefit greatly from patient dat
by jossclimb 4y ago
That's not the only trust model at play. Here is a different example of where FHE becomes very useful.
Cancer researchers will benefit greatly from patient data sets that might include very privacy centric elements such as genome sets, past medical history (of both them and relatives to help understand heredity aspects of the disease). Most people making an informed decision may be uncomfortable with this information being made widely available, at best perhaps OK with a select few groups, but not available to anyone researching this domain.
FHE would solve this, the data can be made available to anyone with compute power that wants to help, while still respecting the privacy of the patients.
- edflsafoiewq 4y agoHow exactly would FHE work here?
- TheGeminon 4y agoOne example would be a project like Folding@Home but with much more sensitive/personal information. Organizations/universities could compute on data provided by a custodian organization without having to care about data handling.
- edflsafoiewq 4y agoNo, I mean please explain the way you would use FHE to do that.
- apple-sauce 4y agoAre "privacy" issues are more important for people than "dying from cancer" issues though?
- TheGeminon 4y agoIt would be useful to have control data sets as well, from those without cancer/illness. This is a problem in a lot of medical research where those affected with an ailment are much more likely to share data, participate in trials, and donate their bodies to science than healthy individuals are.
- OJFord 4y agoWho is 'people'? They're not the same set, not all of cancer research is looking at people currently 'dying from cancer', nor are there going to be enough from different demographies declaring 'I am concerned about dying from cancer more than my privacy' and volunteering their data. And even if there were, that trait itself is probably skewing your data and not necessarily generalisable to people not (so particularly) concerned about 'dying from cancer'.
- unethical_ban 4y agoUgh. All things equal, privacy is usually preferred. This technology would allow both. Why is it either or?
- ilyt 4y agoOr you can just have a supercomputer and run the code on the database, just don't distribute the whole database to the people writing the code. Seems far easier and cheaper