The social media giant Thursday outlined several attempts to help protect the midterm elections, but still has a long way to go. https://media.wired.com/photos/5abd6326b9570a67ba03352f/master/pass/FacebookElectionSecurity-18065845634506.jpg
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How One of Apple’s Key Privacy Safeguards Falls Short
Apple has boasted of its use of a cutting-edge data science known as “differential privacy.” Researchers say they’re doing it wrong. https://media.wired.com/photos/59bb18f3b412f33ba9daa6e1/master/pass/AppleData-517306615.jpg Feed: All Latest
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 […]
