Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Tea and Hacking: Privacy and dating

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 Here's a modern short story about privacy, and dating.  A dating app allowed women to widely share information about men.  The app aske...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

National Medals of Science and Technology (including Cynthia Dwork for differential privacy)

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 In one of the final acts of his administration, President Biden celebrates 25 distinguished scientists and engineers. (I'm particularly...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Proof of human

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  TheTuring test was to see if computers could pass for humans, but as AI increasingly passes those tests, there may be increasing demands f...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Privacy while driving

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 Internet connected cars collect lots of data on driving behavior, which can be sold to insurance companies and used to change drivers' ...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Open source intelligence purchases that would require a warrent to be collected directly

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 The NYT has the story: N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says  By Charlie Savage, January 25 "The National...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Fairness in algorithms: Hans Sigrist Prize to Aaron Roth

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  The University of Bern's Hans Sigrist Prize has been awarded to Penn computer scientist Aaron Roth , and will be celebrated today. He...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Smart toilets and data privacy

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 Something to sit and think about: Smart toilets could leak your medical data, warn security experts. by Matthew Sparkes New Scientist, Vol...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Data privacy concerns in the U.S. and Europe

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A selection from many news stories that touch on data privacy concerns (in the U.S. about Tiktok, in Europe about Facebook...and about DNA):...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Digital data yields suspect in Idaho murders (NYT)

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 The NYT has the story of how a wide ranging search of a large variety of digital data  led to an arrest of a suspect (whose trial hasn'...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Snowden and state surveillance: the view from The Guardian, ten years later

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 Here's a look back at the Snowden affair (publication of documents about government surveillance) by the then editor in chief of the Gu...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

More governments seek to limit TikTok over data concerns

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The NYT has the story: Why Countries Are Trying to Ban TikTok Governments have expressed concerns that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

The end of anonymous sperm donation...

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 In  Colorado, a new law ending anonymous sperm donation seeks to catch up with the technological developments involving genetic sequencing ...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Privacy and data gathered by home devices

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  Does your robot vacuum cleaner make a map of your house as it moves around, and store it on the web?  Could the fact that your kitchen cha...