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The third ERC Synergy OCEAN privacy workshop took place in Venice rather than Les Houches, as a more convenient location for most participants and a definitely more academic and peaceful environment than the Rocky Pop psychedelic hotel! (It also helped that I was invited by the Department of Economics for that period.) Most of participants were old-timers and this helped in launching working groups and discussions from early on. Hence allowing to make more progress in exploring new directions to improve estimation efficiency under privacy (and vice-versa). In particular, our recent decision-theoretic developments proved of interest to several groups and hopefully extensions will come out, none too much in the future. And no-one fell in a canal, or in a crevasse, or ended up in the hospital this time… Grazie mille a tutti!