DEEP TECH NEWS: Respecting individual rights by using ‘privacy preserving aggregate statistics’

The article discusses NTT Research’s work on privacy-preserving aggregate statistics, a cryptographic approach that partitions sensitive user data to enable meaningful aggregate analysis while safeguarding individual privacy, aligned with GDPR and CCPA requirements. It describes a private telemetry system that splits data into general-use signals and randomized fragments, enabling computations such as histograms and averages across sectors like healthcare and finance, with potential benefits including reduced data handling costs, improved compliance, and support for broader social and scientific research.