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"The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

"The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 21, 2025
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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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