Keep privacy risk in check

Design reviews and code audits by world-class experts.

Get an independent assessment of your privacy-critical systems.

We can review the design and implementation of systems that use anonymization or synthetic data technology, provide you with an audit report, and help you resolve any identified issues.

We can work on complex products deployed in bespoke production environments, work with engineering teams to address any technical issues in detail, and distill the findings in clear language, for executives, legal teams, or regulators.

Relevant experience
  • Leading the anonymization consulting team at Google, which has to review and approve all new uses of anonymization technology at the company. Personally reviewing dozens of product launches, and defining company-wide policies.
  • Performing adversarial assessments for multiple high-profile Google products that deployed ad hoc anonymization practices, leading to significant roadmap and strategy changes.
  • Finding and disclosing multiple vulnerabilities in various open-source differential privacy libraries, and designing novel mitigations to provably mitigate this entire class of safety issues.

Dr. Desfontaines led the technical test on the privacy risks of a large-scale customer-facing queryable analytics platform. His findings were new and actionable: he discovered that existing privacy protections were insufficient, as it only took a few days to re-identify individuals. Most importantly, the fixes he suggested were applicable and reasonable. He built a clear narrative for the problem and the solution. Overall, when I work with Dr Desfontaines, he consistently enables clear solutions to improve the privacy of large datasets.

Rebecca Balebako

CEO, Brandworthy.AI

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