[andrewjl]

I might be missing some background on the topic but is this a real-world example of a differential privacy[1] technique?

[1]: https://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/courses-educational-ma...

[waterheater]

No, ephemeral usernames are not differential privacy. Differential privacy is repeatedly sampling a database through a differentially-private interface which returns data samples which are either real or fake. The mean and variance of the sampled data match the true mean and variance of the dataset according to a system-defined epsilon value. The end user isn't able to know if any given piece of data is real or fake.

I really don't like differential privacy.

[AndrewKemendo]

Thank you for that explanation I actually haven’t really read up on it enough and this gives new a good starting point