Due to various data management and data leakage scandals in recent years, both the press and analysts are watching Facebook with a sore eye on how the social platform is trying to get even more information about its users.
The Zuckerbergs are not passionate about the privacy genre in the first place, as they have also had a huge hysteria about their iOS 14 anti-tracking solution, and now encrypted data seems to be biting the company’s eyes.
Indeed, The Information reported that Facebook is one of the companies interested in fully homomorphic encription (FHE). The company allegedly set up a separate team for the technology, the essence of which is that mathematical operations can be performed on the encrypted data later without decryption.
to analyze your data. According to experts interviewed by The Information , this could be most useful for the community giant in the use of two-way encrypted WhatsApp conversations for advertising purposes.
The report In addition to Facebook, he also mentioned Amazon, Google and Microsoft among tech companies interested in FHE
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