no it's not. If you reduce the information in the datapoints until none of them are unique, then it is very obviously impossible to uniquely identify someone from them. And when you have millions of users the data can definitely still be kept interesting
(though there's pretty big pitfalls here, as their report seems to leave open the possibility of not doing it correctly)
Realistically, why would Apple blow up a $3.3T global success for an extra $10M? That 1/330 of the company value
Because they know that even after being caught harvesting user data for advertising, people will still claim they don't do that even on a specialist privacy community on lemmy. Now think just how long it will take for the average apple user to realize it
their given reasons are "to keep backups" and "academic and clinical research with de-identified datasets"
they seem to actually do a fairly good job with anonymizing the research datasets, unlike most "anonymized research data", though for the raw data stored on their servers, they do not seem to use encryption properly and their security model is "the cloud hoster wouldn't spy on the data right?" (hint: their data is stored on american servers, so the american authorities can just subpoena Amazon Web Services directly, bypassing all their "privacy guarantees". (the replacement for the EU-US Privacy Shield seems to be on very uncertain legal grounds, and that was before the election))
There literally already are proven examples, and it didn't change anything
I thought you just wanted him afraid? Sounds like you too actually want him literally killed without charge or trial
Those are not mutually exclusive. One is much more likely to happen than the other.
And if someone does end up committing a murder because of some twitter post and going to prison for it, hey, that's one less ticking time bomb walking the streets. Ol' nick's life is far less valuable than those of random innocents. And one more martyr is not going to change anything. They are perfectly capable of substituting imaginary slights for real ones.
Trying to beat up someone holding a machete may not be the brightest idea
I think it's more accurate to say that power attracts corrupt people, and protects them from the consequences of their actions, allowing them to show their true colors without fear
also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia
that does happen to be one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes.
And searching for mersenne primes happens to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)
saddam hussein
Looks like the image I found cropped out the signature, seems to be jeremykaye.tumblr.com
if it's not slavery, then why is it specifically an exception under the constitutional ban on slavery?