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With the existence of shadow profiles, is ideal privacy even possible unless you live in a remote area with a tech averse population? What about the census? The
by chaostheory 6y ago
With the existence of shadow profiles, is ideal privacy even possible unless you live in a remote area with a tech averse population? What about the census? The data you provide to the gov is also very sensitive and has a history of being abused (see the role of the US Census Bureau in Japanese Internment Camps). However if you don’t provide it, it affects gov funding for your demographic. What about the computer in your pocket? Most of it isn’t open source
- leakr 6y ago"is ideal privacy even possible" - It is, but 99% of the world population won't be able to attain it. Your machines (smartphone, PCs) can be fingerprinted with a 99% accuracy even if you navigate using Tor or a VPN. I think https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/ can be part of an answer!
- mLuby 6y agoIt is possible. A census counts people. It might need to know who's a citizen or who's eligible to vote, or maybe even generation or sex. It doesn't need to know name, address, eye color, medical history, fingerprint, etc. The aggregation provides privacy (unless the sample size is incredibly small, like in an extremely remote district). Another example is the TSA: their job is to protect vehicles and passengers, which means preventing weapons on airplanes. But it doesn't matter who's wielding the weapons. So they don't need ID to do their job, and asking for it (and worse, recording it where it can be leaked) is an unnecessary breach of privacy. The general problem is there are incentives for collecting excessive information and very few disincentives. Laws and regulation can change that.
- tboyd47 6y agoSatoshi Nakamoto apparently did it.
- chaostheory 6y agoI feel that the public doesn't know that for sure; same with Banksy.