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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by cgio on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:04PM (#15077379)
Do you? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought there was a way to locally mangle the data before submitting. Is that not what apple is doing?
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by NabenHarb on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:13PM (#15083751)
For the case of RAPPOR (and for what Apple is doing), you do not need to trust the aggregator with your data. These algorithms operate in the "local" model of differential privacy, where all privatization occurs on the users' local machines before being sent to the aggregator.
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by Sir_Substance on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:56AM (#15079469)
>Is that not what apple is doing?

I don't know, is it? How would I check, if I consider apple an untrusted actor?

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