Google just made another of its data privacy tools free for everyone
Another new addition to a growing Google toybox
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Googlehas announced it has made a newprivacy toolfreely available for all.
Announcing the Magritte tool in aposton the Google Developers blog, the company wrote the launch will be the latest addition toGoogle’s Protected Computing initiative, which the company claims is to fundamentally change “how, when, and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety.”
The new tool, which will be available on theopen sourceproject repository Github, uses “high-accuracy” machine learning to detect identifying objects, such as licence plates and tattoos, and automatically blur them out.
Google’s privacy tools
Google claims that Magritte is best placed to help videographers and video journalists secure the privacy of others in the world around them. It highlighted that it has a low computational spend, and that its high-accuracy makes it a reliable time-saving tool.
Elsewhere, the less catchy “Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Transplier”, which aims to allow data scientists compute encrypted data without being able to access personal information, and wasfirst released last year, has received new circuit optimizations to expand its use cases by ensuring a lower computational cost.
The tools are the latest examples of Google focusing on the research and development of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) that, in June 2022,became a focusfor the US Government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
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In November 2022, the concept was also featured as part of acontestrun by the US and UK governments, which asked participants to develop solutions that allowed for the training of artificial intelligence models without exposing personal data, a principle known asdifferential privacy.
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In 2019, Google made its differential privacy library - a set of tools designed for ease of use by developers and, in some cases, such as thePrivacy on Beamprivacy framework, absolute non-experts -available on GitHub.
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