r/europrivacy • u/Mention-One • 3d ago
France Nvidia bought doctolib
Today on France Info radio, I heard that NVIDIA is investing in Europe and has “bought” Doctolib. I haven’t looked into it or checked sources yet, but if this is true, goodbye privacy—and all the medical data stored there. Personally, I try to avoid interacting with medical platforms as much as possible, but by now it’s become an obstacle course. I’ve resigned myself to it.
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u/Frosty-Cell 3d ago
That sounds bad, but GDPR still applies.
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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 3d ago
Yes but probably irrelevant..
There is a massive literature on "privacy preserving machine learning", which roughly splits into cryptographic and non-cryptographic.
At a high level, the cryptographic flavour might work so long as you're happy multiplying your CPU time costs by some large factor, maybe a thousand or maybe a million or sometimes much much worse. An LLM company cannot afford to multiply their CPU time costs even ten fold.
Non-cryptographic protocols could be far more efficient, but afaik they always wind up being broken eventually.
Ergo, we'd expect some nVidea subsidiary trains health LLMs upon the French healthcare data using non-cryptographic privacy schemes, but (a) does not fully account for what users wish hidden, (b) someone later breaks that scheme, and (c) nobody wants to pull that LLM model from production.
It'll be a consequence free way to violate GDPR by making everything complicated & technical.
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u/Itchy_Special_8209 3d ago
Do you have any source?