Private cloud processing

A method for cloud processing with privacy protection, comprising:

• generating sensor data in response to a user;
• decomposing the sensor data into a plurality of data items using a device;
• transmitting the plurality of data items from the device to a plurality of distributed cloud processing nodes, wherein individual ones of the plurality of distributed cloud processing nodes are operational to generate a corresponding one of a plurality of processed items in response to the corresponding one of the plurality of data items, and a privacy aspect of the user is indeterminable from individual ones of the plurality of data items;
• receiving the plurality of processed items from the plurality of distributed cloud processing nodes at the device;
• and
• generating output data based on the plurality of processed items, wherein the privacy aspect of the user is determinable from the output data.

A private cloud processing system comprising:

• a network;
• at least one sensor operational to generate sensor data in response to a user;
• a device in communication with the at least one sensor and the network, and operational to decompose the sensor data into a plurality of data items, transmit the plurality of data items to the network, receive a plurality of processed items from the network, and generate output data based on the plurality of processed items;
• a plurality of distributed cloud processing nodes in communication with the network, individual ones of the plurality of distributed cloud processing nodes being operational to receive a corresponding one of the plurality of data items from the device through the network, generate a corresponding one of the plurality of processed items in response to the corresponding one of the plurality of data items, and transmit the corresponding one of the plurality of processed items to the device through the network;
• and
• wherein a privacy aspect of the user is indeterminable from individual ones of the plurality of data items, and the privacy aspect of the user is determinable from the output data.