Researchers developed technique to protects privacy of online recommendations
MIT researchers have developed a novel privacy-preserving protocol that could enable an algorithm that provides recommendations to guarantee a user’s personal information remains secure while ensuring recommendation results are accurate. Their technique is so efficient it can run on a smartphone over a very slow network.
In addition to user privacy, their protocol minimizes the unauthorized transfer of information from the database, known as leakage, even if a malicious agent tries to trick a database into revealing secret information.
