The original google blog post being referenced -
<a href="http://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/federated-analytics-collaborative-data.html" rel="nofollow">http://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/federated-analytics-collabo...</a><p><i>‘A ctrl+f for ‘privacy’ brought the word up thirteen times – the subtext was very much ‘at Google, we think about privacy’. But what makes this particularly interesting is that decentralised data analysis isn’t a new concept and didn’t find its origins in privacy.'</i>