Google’s federated analytics method could analyze end user data without invading privacy

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In a blog post today, Google laid out the concept of federated analytics, a practice of applying data science methods to the analysis of raw data that’s stored locally on edge devices. As the tech giant explains, it works by running local computations over a device’s data and only making the aggregated results — not the data from the particular device — available to authorized engineers.  » ….