#differentialprivacy

Study says Apple data-mining safeguards don’t protect privacy enough

During last year’s WWDC in June 2016, Apple noted it would be adopting some degree of differential privacy methods to ensure privacy while the company mined user data on iOS and Mac OS. In short, the technique adds noise to data that scrambles it enough to prevent it from becoming identifiable — though the company made clear at the time that its data collection process was opt-in. Over a year…