Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours
Sergei Vassilvitskii, distinguished scientist at Google since 2012, has written to Brussels warning that the Commission’s proposed anonymisation scheme for forced search-data sharing is, by his red team’s own demonstration, breakable in 120 minutes. The decision deadline is 27 July.
There is a familiar genre of corporate complaint in EU regulatory proceedings: a US technology company protests a Brussels rule, frames the protest as a defence of user welfare, and is dismissed by regulators as making a self-interested argument in privacy clothing. The Reuters exclusive published on Tuesday makes that dismissal harder than usual.
Sergei Vassilvitskii, who has been a distinguished scientist at Google since 2012 and is one of the most-cited researchers in the field of differential privacy, has written to the European Commission warning that the Commission’s proposed anonymisation method for forced search-data sharing is breakable in less than two hours.
His exact words, in written comments to...
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