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Apple taking an ‘immense risk’ with user data thanks to poor implementation of differential privacy, say academics

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/tim-cook-privacy-quote.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500&h=750)</div><p>Researchers at three universities have accused Apple of taking an ‘immense risk’ with the security of user data thanks to what they say is a poor implementation of <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/differential-privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">differential privacy[/url].</p>
<p>Differential privacy is a method of allowing Apple and other companies to analyse user data in a way intended to be completely anonymous. Enough noise is injected into the data that it is supposed to be impossible to match any of that data to a specific individual.</p>
<p>However, security researchers have for the second time questioned how well Apple’s implementation works in practice …</p>
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