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A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.
The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM Everybody can reply
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We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM Everybody can reply
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NEW: Republicans are targeting the census -- again.

This time, they're going after a little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” that helps keep census data anonymous. This would impact a number of vulnerable people, immigrants included.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:
The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM Everybody can reply
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You deserve control over who has access to your private data. That's why we're fighting data brokers and challenging illegal information sharing. Learn more at Take Back CTRL: takebackctrl.org/reclaim-you...
October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM Everybody can reply
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Today’s #OptOutOctober tip: Tweak your privacy settings so you’re not inadvertently sharing your most personal data with the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM Everybody can reply
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Lumo has been recognized in TIME's 2025 Best Inventions special mentions as a private AI assistant.

Unlike Big Tech chatbots, Lumo's approach prioritizes user privacy and data security.

For more details, visit the official TIME article: time.com/collections/...
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Find out why Proton Lumo earned a special mention on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM Everybody can reply
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I cannot emphasize enough how much the folks at Census are *obsessed* with doing the right thing for both representative data collection and privacy. (I say this as someone who nearly didn’t get to tenure because of all the frictions involved in using restricted-access Census data.)
US census data is carefully anonymized for good reason. Now Republicans want to change that -- and their plan could put the data of every person living in the US at risk.

Important reporting from @telliotter.bsky.social
The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM Everybody can reply
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Remember, you're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.

Here's how:

Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.

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Act until Nov 3rd to stop LinkedIn from abusing your data to train AI! | Tuta
Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM Everybody can reply
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Read @telliotter.bsky.social's latest on the census and "differential privacy," a little-known algorithmic process that keeps census data from being used to identify individual respondents.

Huge implications for our congressional districts and the electoral college: www.wired.com/story/republ...
The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM Everybody can reply
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Exactly! Imagine what was smuggled out in the pockets of the DOGE brats when they were downloading everything to flash drives. WHO THE F has that data right now???

We may no longer have privacy, ever.
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM Everybody can reply
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still unsure i care about private data in the context of the protocol
e2ee is a remedy for most privacy issues
otherwise i dont think everything needs to be completely on protocol
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM Everybody can reply
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Here’s a visual explainer on how to turn it off quickly! (Mobile, iOS)
October 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM Everybody can reply
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LinkedIn updates (Settings/ Data privacy):

✔️Disabled generative AI
✔️Disabled third party research
✔️Cleared search history
✔️Requested data
a woman in a blue shirt is sitting on a couch and making a funny face .
Alt: a Black woman in a blue shirt hold hands up while caption reads “Just Sayin”.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM Everybody can reply
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Never forget Rogers also partnered with Elon Musk's Starlink.

Watch your back, and your data privacy, Canadians.

#ElbowsUp
October 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM Everybody can reply
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As with Orwell, it's all premised on this ludicrous lie that extremely wealthy oligarchs in the U.S. care about privacy and sensitive user data from an evil foreign power. And so **they** must therefore be given unprecedented power to surveil and manipulate us. And the news goes along.
October 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM Everybody can reply
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5.They going after this as a violation of the Privacy Act,which, yeah, probably will stick, but the irony is staggering given everything this administration has done with our data since taking power. Also, privacy act training needs a lot of work.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM Everybody can reply
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Andrea Jenkins is absolutely correct here, “The law should not force anyone to choose between living authentically and living safely…Keeping name-change records public doesn’t advance transparency; it invites harm.”

Glad to be a part of working for a change.

www.startribune.com/data-privacy...
Opinion | The law should protect transgender Minnesotans, not expose them
A proposed rule change before the state Supreme Court would limit public access to name-change court filings related to gender identity, Minneapolis City Council Member Andrea Jenkins writes.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM Everybody can reply
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I hate that they call it AI, because it isn't "Intelligent", it's a glorified chatbot built on data scraping, is disastrous for privacy+ the environment & produces huge amounts of bullshit.

I mean how many people are gonna see that & just take it as fact? Because some absolutely will.
October 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM Everybody can reply
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"There are completely legitimate...areas for sex and AI to mix, with appropriate safeguards. But this field’s safeguarding record, from mental health to data privacy, is abysmal. All available evidence points to this tool being another frontier where men are radicalized to offline misogyny.""
"Rather than putting as many resources as possible to solving the world’s biggest problems, as we’ve been promised AI will do, the technologists of the world are asking simply: how can I put my dick in this?"

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The Bangification of AI
Or why it’s so creepy to be a woman on the internet in 2025
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October 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM Everybody can reply
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There's an idea! Once completed, that report along with MRI results should be released to Americans, if not in their entirety due to privacy concerns, at least factual releasable data. Forget letting him, Kookie Karoline Leavitt or other WH tall tale tellers inform the nation.
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM Everybody can reply
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October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM Everybody can reply
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Another example of institutional investigations conducted in secret, without a public report, for 'privacy reasons'.

Investigation found UBC researcher fabricated data, gave spinal patients 'false hope.' The public was not told.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
False hope, fabricated data: No public notice after UBC uncovered serious misconduct in medical study | CBC News
A celebrated Vancouver researcher used fabricated data and hid evidence of infected wounds to falsely claim his patented skin treatment could heal years-old bed sores in a matter of weeks, according t...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM Everybody can reply
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