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An American Privacy Emergency

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Re: An American Privacy Emergency

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Yeah, calling your legislators is going to do precisely nothing [1], just like data centers are almost universally opposed by the communities and the negative externalities are way more real and direct. Yet they keep getting approved anyway. The true crisis here is in the captured political system. In the 1990s in Australia a racist, white supremacist party arose called One Nation through a very weird confluence of e…

ask tom s. in california if all that spend guarantees anything.

more urgent is to repair the broken election process especially in california where it now takes 30+ days to "count" the votes.

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Warning: this is AI generated. Don't actually trust it to be secure.

Huh? I'm pretty sure I'm a person. But AI would say that too...

I was (obviously) referring to the project that you linked to, not saying you are a bot. Github contributors page shows the whole thing was vibe coded: https://github.com/aosmith/cipher/graphs/contributors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Warning: this is AI generated. Don't actually trust it to be secure.

Huh? I'm pretty sure I'm a person. But AI would say that too...

bogwog is saying that your site/product is obviously vibecoded based off of the frontend

Re: An American Privacy Emergency

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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377 It's too bad this has become political. I do differential privacy work for GDPR compliance and it's an interesting technology.

> I do differential privacy work for GDPR compliance and it's an interesting technology. You mean legislation?

No?

We do GDPR-compliant reporting by using differential privacy to provably remove PII.

Re: An American Privacy Emergency

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One of my favorite recently learned facts about Congress:

Federally mandated parental leave (paternity and maternity leave) polls at about 80% in favor with the US adult population. This is regardless of political affiliation, by the way. Democrat and Republican voters both support it.

Upon reading this, you might be surprised as to why it's NOT federally mandated given how popular it is.

One group it's NOT popular with is corporations. And corporations donate a lot of money to politicians. And it's cheaper to donate to politicians who are against parental leave than it is to pay people for that parental leave.

I enjoy sharing this b/c it's a reminder that there are groups who spend a lot of time and money to get their way. At first, that might feel overwhelming. You might be surprised to know that when you call your local congressperson, those calls gets tallied b/c they want to know what their constituents care about. So give them a call and let them know.

Re: An American Privacy Emergency

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? I'm pretty sure I'm a person. But AI would say that too...

I was (obviously) referring to the project that you linked to, not saying you are a bot. Github contributors page shows the whole thing was vibe coded: https://github.com/aosmith/cipher/graphs/contributors

You're right and I'm generally not a fan of vibe coding but I'm not trying to make money and it's free YMMV.
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