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by harvie 337 days ago
Ok, lets stop being delusional here. I'll tell you how this will actualy work:

Imagine your device sending Google an encrypted query and getting back the exact results it wanted — without you having any way of knowing what that query was or what result they returned. The technique to do that is called Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).

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queries are Oblivious Transfer - a second limited case of FHE that actually addresses the filter threat model.