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

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Bank Secrecy Act. Since then financial privacy in the United States has significantly eroded. Good overview of various legislative changes since the 1770s --> https://www.cato.org/commentary/illusion-financial-privacy

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Tinder is rolling out facial verification

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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.

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