🤔 The cost of free on privacy

“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” — Ayn Rand

Are we free from the control of man? I’m not so sure that we are. See why below.

In today’s newsletter:

• The cost of free on privacy — And why Facebook hates your privacy rights.

• Paper

• Creepy or no

• Learn

Penses

Kindergarten was decades ago but it seems that some adults need a refresher lesson. So here we go:

So, what ever happened to the concept of my stuff being my stuff? Sharing can be fun but asking if I want to share in simple terms has always been a requirement.

Well, unless a government is suing these companies they aren’t caring to ask.

From Meta( a dumb name by the way),

to Adobe.

They take advantage of the average user. Anything you make with Adobe is there’s now. And…we pay for Adobe.

At least in the case of Meta, I think it’s time we start asking about the cost of a free platform. Is it worth our freedom?

Is the disinformation, pornography, crime worth it?

Maybe, it’s time to innovate on the original idea and safeguard what matters.

Paper

Here’s some of the insights I gathered from papers today:

• Six Levels of Privacy: A Framework for Financial Synthetic Data. Read more here.

  • The levels of privacy defense encompass a range of mechanisms, including obscuring PII, adding noise, generative modeling, and calibrated simulation, each offering varying degrees of privacy protection against different attacks.

  • Testing and scoring Synthetic Data for resistance against attacks is imperative for ensuring privacy at level 4 protection.

  • Generative modeling and calibrated simulation offer stronger privacy guarantees but may still be vulnerable to property inference attacks.

  • Various privacy attacks, such as reconstruction attacks, membership inference attacks, and property inference attacks, pose significant threats to synthetic data, emphasizing the importance of robust privacy defenses.

Creepy or no?

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