The Daily Dose

Lost in the glitz and glamour of bigger emoji yesterday, Apple’s biggest announcement went almost entirely overlooked: differential privacy. Differential privacy isn’t an Apple creation, in fact it’s been around for years and is a well-known method for masking data in order to keep it from being extracted. What you need to know, however, is that Apple is integrating the cryptography method as an effort to keep all of us safer and to avoid having usable data to turn over to law enforcement or government agencies should they request it. Differential data It’s a fairly complex process, but think of it like…

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