Aloni Cohen https://aloni.net/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:57:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Differential privacy’s day in court https://aloni.net/2021/06/16/differential-privacys-day-in-court/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:32:33 +0000 https://aloni.net/?p=370 (This post is intended for people who are following the DP-at-the-Census story. More background will come in another post, maybe. EDIT: My blog posts (part 1; part 2) hosted by BU’s Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security provides an inadequate introduction.) Some folks in the differential privacy (DP) community have asked me who Read more

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]]> My first amicus brief: Alabama v. Department of Commerce https://aloni.net/2021/05/27/my-first-amicus-brief-alabama-v-department-of-commerce/ Thu, 27 May 2021 16:10:24 +0000 https://aloni.net/?p=358 About a month ago, I filed an amicus brief in Alabama’s lawsuit challenging the use of differential privacy at the Census. The brief was a collaboration by a bunch of data privacy experts from computer science and law. The full list of signatories is below. Particular credit goes to Cynthia Dwork and Deirdre Mulligan. The Read more

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]]> CCPA and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Draft Regulations https://aloni.net/2020/02/24/ccpa-terrible-horrible-no-good-regulations/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 06:00:37 +0000 https://aloni.net/?p=213 The most important part of a privacy law are the definitions. Get them wrong and the rest of the statute doesn’t mean much.[1] California has a fancy new privacy law, CCPA, but the latest draft regulations from the office of Attorney General Becerra puts forth a ridiculous interpretation of the law’s core definition. The short Read more

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