16 Sep New Study Suggest Apple’s “DIfferential Privacy” is Being Oversold
A recent study by researchers from University of Southern California, Indiana University, and China’s Tsinghua University suggest that Apple’s much-touted privacy measure does not actually give users a reassuring guarantee as advertised.
Apple’s “differential privacy” works by introducing “noise” to a the user’s information prior to being uploaded to the cloud so that Apple’s total dataset can still be meaningful without actually revealing anything about the individual’s themselves.
However, the researchers found that MacOS uploads more specific data than expected, and that the company also keeps the code and obfuscation values secret, which they point out, can easily be changed with little oversight.
Source: Wired
