Google rolled out secure data sharing tool

Google has rolled out the open-source tool to help organizations work together with confidential data sets while raising the bar for privacy. Private Join and Compute helps solve problem of securely sharing sensitive data with other parties.

Using this cryptographic protocol, two parties can encrypt their identifiers and associated data, and then join them. They can then do certain types of calculations on the overlapping set of data to draw useful information from both datasets in aggregate. v

Source: Google Online Security Blog: Helping organizations do more without collecting more data