Keep privacy risk in check
Design reviews and privacy audits by world-class experts.
Get an independent assessment of your privacy-critical systems.
We can review the design, implementation, or output of systems that use anonymization or synthetic data technology, to check their real-world robustness against privacy failures. We work with you to define a crisp threat model, provide you with a comprehensive 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 products that used 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.
Damien and Luc helped us prepare for the public release of a high-profile longitudinal survey dataset by conducting a hands-on analysis of re-identification risk. They mapped realistic pathways through which participants could potentially be identified, quantified those risks, and tested them in practice. Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach to privacy, they took the time to understand our specific context and helped us navigate the tradeoffs between protecting participant privacy and preserving the scientific value of the data. Their analysis directly informed concrete changes to our release strategy and gave us the evidence we needed to make decisions about what data we could responsibly make public. They were exceptionally thoughtful, rigorous, and effective collaborators.
Patrick Krause
Data Director, OpenResearch
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