Security News > 2020 > November > The ones who brought you Let's Encrypt, bring you: Tools for gathering anonymized app usage metrics from netizens

Today, the California-based non-profit, which operates Let's Encrypt, introduced Prio Services, a way to gather online product metrics without compromising the personal information of product users.

"Normally they would just send all of the metrics back to the application developer, but with Prio, applications split the metrics into two anonymized and encrypted shares and upload each share to different processors that do not share data with each other."

Normally they would just send all of the metrics back to the application developer, but with Prio, applications split the metrics into two anonymized and encrypted shares.

"With Prio, you can get both: the aggregate statistics needed to improve an application or service and maintain the privacy of the people who are providing that data," said Boneh in a statement.

ISRG will operate a data processing server, and subscribers will have to implement a second server and arrange to have its apps transmit their metrics so they can be divided between the two servers for subsequent anonymized aggregation and analysis.

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