This move toward on-device data and computation presents an enormous challenge to engineers and companies who depend on that data. It’s almost as if

From privacy switch to privacy knob

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2021-08-03 15:30:07

This move toward on-device data and computation presents an enormous challenge to engineers and companies who depend on that data. It’s almost as if the American Board of Otolaryngology declared that, due to reasons of buccal privacy, all tonsillectomies must now be performed rectally rather than orally. That’s right, you have to go in the back way to snip them tonsils. Faced with that mandate, what do you do? Well, you build the world’s longest colonoscopic tools, and get really get good at operating via this (pun intended) ass-backwards approach. Is it a massive pain in the ass, for both you and patient? Of course it is, but vox bruxellae, vox dei!, at least when it comes to privacy regulation. Once you’ve figured out the rectal approach to privacy however, it’s actually not that big a deal and you’ve finally got the Belgian Eurocrats off your ass (for now at least).

How do we do as much of the actual machine learning and optimization on the device itself so as to not have to move data off the phone?