impact

This page lists some of the ways my group's research has influenced industry standards and deployments.


private search

  • Apple's "Enhanced Visual Search" feature on iOS uses techniques derived from our work on private search.

private aggregation

  • Apple uses our Prio system for private aggregation to improve the iOS Photos app.
  • CloudFlare and ISRG are writing an IETF standard formalizing our systems for private aggregation.
  • Divvi Up is a non-profit dedicated to deploying private-aggregation systems based on Prio and our zero-knowledge proofs on secret-shared data. (Divvi Up is run by the same organization behind Let's Encrypt.)
  • Google and Apple used our systems for private-aggregation to measure the effectiveness of Covid-19 exposure-notification apps on iOS and Android.
  • Mozilla uses our private-aggregation systems to collect browser-usage data in a privacy-friendly way.

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