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Differential Privacy: The Big Tech Solution to Big Data Privacy

IPilogue

The AI revolution has brought about significant concerns about the privacy of big data. Thankfully, over the past decade, big tech has found a solution to this problem: differential privacy, which actors have implemented in various ways. government has implemented differential privacy for their 2020 census data.

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DuckDuckGo Profits on Privacy

LexBlog IP

2021 was a rough year for many businesses, but there was at least one winner: in a recent blog post , privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo reported a record growth of over 46 percent and now claims to serve more than 27 million Americans. This post was authored by C. Blair Robinson, legal intern at Robinson+Cole.

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October Privacy and Security Roundup: Cryptocurrencies endure scrutiny, China’s Privacy Law goes into effect and new EU SCCs now required

LexBlog IP

In the October edition of our Privacy and Security Roundup , we dive into the latest details surrounding OFAC’s efforts to stifle ransomware attacks, how organizations should carefully assess the new Personal Information Protection Law in China, the new EU Standard Contractual Clauses requirement effective Sept. 27, and more.

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November Privacy and Security Roundup: Cybersecurity export controls, mandatory reporting bills and Safeguards Rule changes

LexBlog IP

In this latest edition of our Privacy and Security Roundup, we share the details of the final rule’s two key measures including export restrictions and a new License Exception, provide an update on cyber incident reporting legislation, discuss modifications to the GLBA Safeguards Rule and much more. At issue in the case are 1.1

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DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

TorrentFreak

Launched in 2008, search engine DuckDuckGo is a go-to service for Internet users who value their privacy. The privacy-focused search engine is not immune to potential copyright issues, however. Unlike many competitors, the site doesn’t keep a record of users’ IP addresses or other sensitive information.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In particular, age authentication mandates are riddled with unavoidable privacy and security concerns; they also make it harder to navigate the Internet and create an authentication infrastructure that censors and authoritarians will find easy to weaponize in the future. Techlash + Sinophobia = unconstitutional censorship.

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2021 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Apple positions itself as more privacy-supportive than the other tech giants, but then it committed an unforgiveable privacy faux pas by unveiling plans to proactively scan client-side files for illegal CSAM. California voters passed a terrible privacy law in November 2020. Apple’s Client-Side Scanning Plans. issue 2, Nov.