30. From meaningless guarantees to strong data privacy with Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Data Democratization: Stories about data, AI and privacy

In this episode we talked to a prominent scientist from the data privacy field, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye. He is an assistant professor at the Imperial College London, leading the Computational Privacy Group. A lot of fascinating privacy questions came up about behavioral data, k-anonymity, differential privacy and meaningless privacy guarantees that mask true risks. We talked about the way forward and how true data privacy can be created in practical terms. Tune in for an enlightening conversation that puts a lot of greys into the seemingly black and white world of data privacy!