Federated Learning's Privacy Promise: I Built a Health Tracker with Flower—Does It Hold Up?
Your Fitbit knows your heartbeat better than your doctor. But training AI on that data without shipping it to the cloud? I rolled up my sleeves with Flower's federated learning framework to find out if it's real or just another privacy fairy tale.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- Federated learning with Flower keeps health data on-device, using gRPC and Docker for realistic sims.
- Simple LogisticRegression demo works, but real apps need advanced defenses like differential privacy.
- Privacy promise is real for devs, but Big Tech will likely centralize profits long-term.
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