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Finding a troll’s identity

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Although it also makes me wonder about privacy and people using the bits of information for bad things. Tags: privacy , TikTok , trolls #heybestie #accountability #rx0rcist ♬ Chopin Nocturne No. Plus, this one is really satisfying.

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1950 Census released by U.S. National Archives

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For privacy reasons, there’s a 72-year restriction on individual Census records, which include names and addresses. Tags: archive , census , history. It’s 72 years today since the release of the 1950 Census. The scanned paper records are available for browsing and downloading.

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DNA face to facial recognition in attempt to find suspect

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Tags: crime , DNA , ethics , facial recognition , privacy , Wired This seems like a natural progression, but it should be easy to see how the pairing of the tech could cause all sorts of issues when someone’s face is poorly constructed and then misclassified with facial recognition.

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Open cameras and AI to locate Instagram photos

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Tags: AI , Dries Depoorter , Instagram , privacy , surveillance. Dries Depoorter recorded video from open cameras for a week and scraped Instagram photos. Then he used AI to identify the people in the photos and their locations. Depoorter calls it The Follower.

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Sleuthing for birth dates, with just TikTok profiles as clue

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TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of the internet. Just web searches coupled with interactions among those who don’t know or care about privacy on the internets. Tags: notkahnjunior , privacy , TikTok. notkahnjunior Replying to @knoughpe ? It seems too easy.

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Period trackers and legal implications

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Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma Weil discuss data privacy for those who track their periods : In their investigation, police try to find evidence that someone intended to miscarry, or was otherwise endangering the viability of their pregnancy. Tags: period , privacy. Given the current restrictions in the U.S.,

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Optimizing retail spaces

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Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of tracking customer movement in stores : Complicating efforts to address privacy concerns is a lack of regulatory clarity. Tags: New York Times , optimization , privacy , retail , shopping.

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