Overview of real-life applications of differential privacy
In this section, we will go through a high-level summary of a few real-world applications that make use of differential privacy.
Differential privacy usage at Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc. provides mobility as a service – that is, ride-hailing services. It has to protect the privacy of the customers who make use of its services but at the same time analyze its data to provide a better service. It has developed an open source framework to achieve differential privacy with SQL queries, which it made to analyze and derive insights. All SQL queries are transformed using Uber’s differential privacy framework, which executes SQL queries and provides the query results with differential privacy guaranteed.
It can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/uber-archive/sql-differential-privacy.
Differential privacy usage at Apple
Apple, Inc. has incorporated local differential privacy on a large scale in its...