Google and federated analytics: an effective tool in privacy signalling

The original google blog post being referenced - http://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/federated-analytics-collabo...

‘A ctrl+f for ‘privacy’ brought the word up thirteen times – the subtext was very much ‘at Google, we think about privacy’. But what makes this particularly interesting is that decentralised data analysis isn’t a new concept and didn’t find its origins in privacy.'