Privacy Preserving Measurement

This post begins a daily blog, live from the 116th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force in Yokohama, Japan, March 25-31, 2023. We’re focusing on standards activities of importance to the Internet Freedom community. Since IETF114 (report), the Privacy Preserving Measurement Working Group has been deliberating over two distinct proposals offering very different technical methodologies for undertaking measurement activities while respecting user privacy. STAR offers an approach called k-anonymity - reporting a measurement value only if k or more parties are also reporting the same value. [Read More]

The 112th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) took place November 8-12, 2021 - as a virtual event for the sixth time in succession due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s a summary of the work I found important to the Internet Freedom community. Privacy Preserving Measurement While we often (rightly) focus on unwanted surveillance of targeted individuals by nation-states and other bad actors, the Internet’s surveillance economy presents a major threat to personal privacy and freedom for all users of the Internet, as Mozilla so aptly describes on this wiki page. [Read More]