It has been reassured by Matthew Green, the expert in privacy and security that the iPhone will not kill a person. This is something that is really good, he provided an in depth explanation as to how the privacy approach is different with apple. He also demonstrated some consequences of privacy restriction along with the consequences that it has.
There are various kinds of usage patterns that has been discovered when it comes to Differential privacy, this is done on the basis of various studies conducted on a large number of users without making any kind of compromises on the privacy of each individual. The same pattern is shared by a lot of people and it has been seen on the studies that have been conducted. For example, it could be using the music streaming app to listen to the same song that is popular. The desirable results are produced with the help of the emerging patterns that are seen in general.
The information is gathered and is applied so that it can form the necessary answers that are being looked for. Differential privacy is a technique that is pretty recent and gathers the data that they get based on various kinds of surveys. In order to reach an accurate distribution, the randomness is calculated and then subtracted to produce the necessary results. This is a system which is lot more sophisticated and adds random values which is produced in the form of a result that we get to see at the end.
With the differential privacy, there is also the side where there are various challenges that are faced. This would include The data that is collected from an individual On reception and before transmission the amount of information that is obscured How many similar kinds of questions were asked? Across a period of time, how many times the similar or same questions were asked to an individual.