People are understandably reluctant to share their biomedical data (genomes, biomarkers, etc) because they fear it can be used to uniquely identify them. But scientists would benefit from large open-access databases of human biomarkers. Cryptography might help.
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(Idea introduced to me by
@anishmohammed.) If you, the researcher, just want to compute an average value of a variable, or a correlation between variables -- some map-reduce function on a set of records that doesn't preserve any individual record --1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread
you could provide a zero-knowledge proof that your computation does not save any individual record, and only unlock access to the public dataset if your computation's proof "goes through." Researchers could learn aggregate statistics without snooping on individuals.
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