I had the same question, but it looks like RAPPOR has gotten significantly more advanced since I originally learned about the "just boolean questions" version. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.01214.pdf explains how to build privacy preserving measurements without knowing the values of the population.
I'm personally very excited to see more investment in privacy preserving telemetry from open source projects. Alex On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Kurt Roeckx via governance < governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > On 2017-08-21 17:56, Georg Fritzsche wrote: > >> What we plan to do now is run an opt-out SHIELD study [6] to validate our >> implementation of RAPPOR. This study will collect the value for users’ >> home >> page (eTLD+1) for a randomly selected group of our release population We >> are hoping to launch this in mid-September. >> > > This at least looks confusing to me. Will Firefox have a list of possible > homepages, and then send some answer to Mozilla for a random sample (or > all) of those? > > That is at least how I expect it to work, and "collect the value" can be > interpreted in multiple ways. I suggest someones writes a nice explanation > of how this works. > > > Kurt > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
