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Where has privacy gone?

2024· preprint· en· W4391342518 on OpenAlexaff
Esma Aı̈meur, Gilles Brassard

Bibliographic record

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Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInternet privacyBossContext (archaeology)MultitudeOrder (exchange)AdvertisingSociologyComputer securityLawComputer scienceHistoryBusinessPolitical scienceEngineering

Abstract

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Alice is reading a novel on her computer in the comfort of her home drinking a piña colada. Her husband John, on the other hand, is grabbing his morning cup of coffee at his favorite café while looking at his Facebook account. Alice’s webcam is on and John feels at ease using the café’s public WiFi. Then, suddenly, Alice gets an advertisement about Caribbean drinks. She is a bit perplexed. As for John, he receives an email from his boss asking why he is not at work and another from Facebook alerting him of suspicious activities on his account. He is irritated. They both thought their privacy was safe. There are a multitude of threats looming on the horizon from profiling, identity theft, and mass surveillance to depriving babies of their right to privacy before being born. Before diving into the dangers and how to eliminate or at least mitigate threats, let us understand the concept of privacy. To do so, we go back to the origins in order to comprehend its evolution throughout history. At each period, privacy practices adapt to the time-specific context. Not only that, but the historical context can have long-lasting implications for centuries to come. We then explain the situation today with the impacts on the individual and society. Finally, we draw some conclusions about the future of privacy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.054

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0090.022
Scholarly communication0.0150.030
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0070.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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