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The post makes sense, DDG makes sense, good timing, ok no news to most of us but a good way to get people again talking about DDG.
Considering that DDG is 'just' a Yandex whitelabel (before Bing) with some extra features, especially the no tracking, it's surprising how big it got with Weinberg's Marketing hacks. Congrats!
Compartments are isolated in VMs, with separate network connectivity using nested chains of VPNs, JonDonym and Tor. Particularly sensitive compartments are isolated in separate computers. It's prudent to avoid cross-compartment sharing of USB drives.
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It is a new field, I admit, but it shows there's a false dichotomy between privacy and stopping all data collection and analysis. LeapYear Innovations [1] looks like they have some clients who care about differential privacy. [2] [1]: http://www.leapyearinnovations.com/ [2]: http://www.leapyearinnovations.com/shroudbase
It's not a false dichotomy: most of the time data collection and analysis does not preserve privacy. In all cases, you can't guarantee that. You also didn't respond to this: > Furthermore, even if a company was using differential privacy to anonymize data between the collection and the processing step, there is no way to prove that the data is being handled appropriately before and during the collection step. Also, t…
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Specific examples you're willing to share really help us improve. Feel free to send them to us at inbound at duckduckgo.
I find the auto-correct to be over-zealous. If DDG decides that what I've entered is a typo, It will only show me results for the "corrected" word, so I'll have to quote uncommonly searched words. This usually happens when the search is similar to another one that is much more common.
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Actually, I've noticed that DGG is way overdoing guessing. More often than not I get results that are only similar to the search query in some way instead of actually what I'm looking for. This has been getting worse over time for me.
Of course, because DDG can't build a profile of you, it would have to resort to some guessing. For example, if you search for "python", it would have to guess whether you are a programmer, or a biologist, in order to present the most relevant results. And of course, Google already has all this information...
Example of what I meant: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=BMW+723i
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They define what they mean by the word private, and then prove their mechanisms satisfy that definition. It's not a disagreement about the word "provable," it's that you don't agree that their definition of privacy is a good definition of privacy. That's fine, but your reason seems suspicious. If they could determine any information about you, then such an algorithm would fail if your data were not collected in the f…
> That's fine, but your reason seems suspicious. I prefer to avoid living my life in a fishbowl. > provably private This does not have a mathematics definition. Private means not accessible to anyone aside from the owner. That is something that is provably private. > information theoretic guarantee This sounds like hand waving to get rid of actual concerns.
Choose what? To live like Stallman? Even his data leaks all over the place. Absolute privacy, like all absolutes, is a sandcastle in the path of an incoming tide. I am all for encrypted comm but metadata is almost as bad and virtually unavoidable. Why was no one creeped out that Starfleet always knows where every crew member is at all times?
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They psychologically torture and harass people to produce false confessions or force people to do things against their will. Think what happened to Aaron Swartz, but on crack... Chicago, I'm sure is no different... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-polic...
So you couldn't provide any real source, instead linking to something about the Chicago police. What's the Georgia Tech connection?
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They psychologically torture and harass people to produce false confessions or force people to do things against their will. Think what happened to Aaron Swartz, but on crack... Chicago, I'm sure is no different... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-polic...
So you couldn't provide any real source, instead linking to something about the Chicago police. What's the Georgia Tech connection?