Damien Desfontaines

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Damien works at Tumult Labs, a startup that helps organizations share or publish insights from sensitive data using differential privacy. He likes deploying robust anonymization solutions that solve real-world problems while deeply respecting the privacy of the people in the data. He tends to get kind of annoyed when people adopt an approach to anonymization mostly based on ~vibes~, even though the principled solution is, like, right there.