Google has open-sourced Differentially Private SQL, a tool for companies aiming to keep sensitive data private. Learn more:

For a company that’s in the business oftracking users’ online activities, Google sure is going all out to prove it’s dead serious about privacy.

To that effect, the internet behemoth isopen-sourcing a librarythat it uses toglean insights from aggregate datain a privacy-preserving manner.

CalledDifferentially Private SQL, the library leverages the idea of differential privacy (DP) — a statistical technique that makes it possible to collect and share aggregate information about users, while safeguarding individual privacy.

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