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Differential privacy is used in the U.S. Census to protect individual privacy by adding noise to statistical data. This method makes it harder to identify individuals from the results. Republicans are advocating for the removal of differential privacy in Census data

Ars Technica

Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial

Differential privacy" algorithm prevents statistical data from being tied to individuals.

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A biography of Tor https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy

Printing tracking dots are small secret yellow dots that printers produce on every printed page. These dots provide information about the device used to print the documents

Printer tracking dots - Wikipedia

Tinder is rolling out facial verification

WIRED

Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers

Face Check will scan new members’ faces to ensure they don’t match existing profiles. The move comes as romance scams continue to proliferate, ...

This week is the 55th anniversary of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) which was signed into law on October 26, 1970, laying the groundwork for total financial surveillance

The day your financial choices stopped being private.

The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 quietly flipped the switch on surveillance.

@tuma attends dev calls of several open-source projects every week to keep us updated about on-going developemts, new implementations + releases. Pretty cool! View quoted note →

End-to-end encrytion for git services

The University of Sydney

Scientists develop end to end encryption for git services

It's sometimes forgotten that Chat Control were hardly driven by lobbyists. In 2022, the proposal came after consultations with a little-known foundation from Switzerland which founded with a lot of money a child protection organization. This organization then made massive PR + advertisment for the issue. A later proposal was developed in close coordination with Thorn, a U.S. company founded by Ashton Kutcher + Demi Moore, dedicated to combating CSAM. Thorn was registered as a charitable organization in the EU, though it sells Safer, a system to identify known or suspected CSAM. It's not about protecting children.

Episode 160: The Lobbyists behind Chat Control

It turns out, that the EU's push to completely abolish digital privacy might not actually be an altruistic move to save children from abuse. Severa...

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@hal knots or core?

@hal How many npubs exist on nostr? What are the three most common words found in user bios on nostr? Rank them + indicate how frequently each appears. Count each word only once per bio, even if it appears multiple times If you don’t have the capacity to answer this question, let me know. Don't make something up

@hal Are there any knifemakers on nostr? Or npub associated with knife making? View quoted note →

Are you winning @hal ?

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There is no fast way to significantly boost your reading speed without losing comprehension https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100615623267

Alterego captures neuromuscular signals from the jaw + face that are activated by internal verbalization. In that way it can transcribe words that a person has not spoken aloud

AlterEgo

Introducing AlterEgo, the first near-telepathic interface, designed to make technology as intuitive as using your inner voice.

Signal introduces Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet to strengthen encryption

AboutSignal

Signal strengthens encryption against future quantum computers

Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR) protects message encryption against quantum computers.

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