{"id":6018,"date":"2016-08-04T00:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2016-06-29T00:14:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:14:55","slug":"linked-apples-differential-privacy-is-about-collecting-your-data-but-not-%e2%80%8byour-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/08\/04\/linked-apples-differential-privacy-is-about-collecting-your-data-but-not-%e2%80%8byour-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Apple\u2019s \u2018Differential Privacy\u2019 Is About Collecting Your Data\u2014But Not \u200bYour Data&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/06\/apples-differential-privacy-collecting-data\/\">via Wired<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWith a large dataset that consists of records of individuals, you might like to run a machine learning algorithm to derive statistical insights from the database as a whole, but you want to prevent some outside observer or attacker from learning anything specific about some [individual] in the data set,\u201d says Aaron Roth, a University of Pennsylvania computer science professor whom Apple\u2019s Federighi named in his keynote as having \u201cwritten the book\u201d on differential privacy. (That book, co-written with Microsoft researcher Cynthia Dwork, is the Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy [PDF].) \u201cDifferential privacy lets you gain insights from large datasets, but with a mathematical proof that no one can learn about a single individual.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apple will be collecting more data in iOS 10 but it seems like they\u2019re taking an approach that protects user data while still keeping up with what every other big-data company is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Wired: \u201cWith a large dataset that consists of records of individuals, you might like to run a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-30T23:55:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"6c34cb5a-7c05-483c-8a98-2c3e933b1c7f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-30T23:55:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AbDTLWnwFSDyKmCw-kzscfw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1z4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5061,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/linked-apple-ios-9-security-privacy-features\/","url_meta":{"origin":6018,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Apple iOS 9: Security &#038; Privacy Features&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium: During the WWC Keynote, Craig Federighi has made it really clear that Apple \u201cseriously don\u2019t want to know [your personal information]\u201d. 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The Microsoft-owned app, available on iOS\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7908,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/technology-the-price-of-privacy\/","url_meta":{"origin":6018,"position":2},"title":"Technology: The Price of Privacy","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We know the GDPR exists which forces companies handling our data be upright stewards of this and disclose to us what they do with it and a fine levied on them by the EU when they mistreat our data. These protections don\u2019t exist in most of the world. 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