Chris Riederer, Yunsung Kim, and Augustin Chaintreau of Columbia University, and Nitish Korula, and Silvio Lattanzi of Google Research have published an article. Here’s the abstract: Linking accounts of the same user across datasets – even when personally identifying information is removed or unavailable – is an important open problem studied in many contexts. Beyond…
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Police State America wants everyone to carry their birth certificates to the bathroom
Joe Cadillic writes: Last year, multiple states have pushed bills requiring people to “prove” their gender before using a bathroom. Some of these bills encourage people to report on each other and offer a cash reward for finding someone in the “wrong” bathroom! North Carolina is the first state in America to create ‘bathroom police’. The new law enacted in March, bars people from…
A statement from Bruce Springsteen on North Carolina
Kudos to ‘The Boss” for the following decision and statement. New Jersey has values, too, and if Cruz or any other candidate doesn’t agree with what Springsteen says, below, screw ’em. As you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also know, North Carolina has just passed HB2,…
From insurance to surveillance: Experts debate privacy in the age of Big Data
Eric Geller reports: Big Data is scary. That’s the one thing that four people from very different professions agreed on during a panel at a Kenyon College political-science conference about technology’s impact on privacy in the 21st century. Read more about the opinions expressed at the event on Daily Dot. Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.