Toward the end of Apple's WWDC keynote in San Francisco this week, senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi switched gears from stickers and bubble effects to talk about a particular kind of ...

When Apple discovers trending popular emojis, or when Google reports traffic at a busy restaurant, they're analyzing large ...

In a world increasingly dominated by data, privacy has become both a precious commodity and a pressing concern. Enter differential privacy to protect individuals’ data in an era where information, ...

In a big change of direction, Apple at WWDC announced plans to use differential privacy in iOS and macOS as a way in which it can collect useful data in order to securely provide its customers with ...

An Apple software engineer recently revealed that Apple is now rolling out its use of differential privacy to cover both web browsing and health data, as it now uses the technique to process millions ...

Traditionally, companies have relied upon data masking, sometimes called de-identification, to protect data privacy. The basic idea is to remove all personally identifiable information (PII) from each ...

When the U.S. Census Bureau releases the first local results with demographic breakdowns from the 2020 decennial census on Thursday, the numbers will reflect a new method for protecting the details of ...