"The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Picture putting your diary in a sealed box, letting a proofreader edit your spelling without ever opening it, then reading the fixed pages once the box comes back. That's Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a mathematical process that lets computers work with locked data.
Why does this matter? Today, data is s…
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