On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:50 AM, hagis6789--- via governance < governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
> It is one thing to give a count of how many cases of syphilis there are in > a city, quite another to give a count of how many cases there are in a town > of 300. It is one thing to say that credit card spending is up 20%, quite > another to say that Bob Smith's credit card spending is up 20%. > Usage of techniques like RAPPOR allows us to keep individual data private, regardless of the population size. The trade-off is that we need a minimum population of a certain size to get answers out of the aggregate data we collect. In your specific example, we would not be able to get answers from a population size of 300 people. Georg _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
