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Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:58AM   
from the crypto-swat dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow4408

Lea Kissner is back at her alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, armed with a crisp gray blazer, a slide deck, and a laptop with a 'My Other Car Is A Pynchon Novel' sticker on it. Since graduating in 2002, she's earned a PhD at Carnegie Mellon in cryptography and worked her way up at Google, where she manages user privacy and tries to keep things from breaking. She's here to tell a hall of computer science students how she did it—and also how to create privacy-protective systems at a scale that you won't find outside a handful of massive tech companies.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-woman-who-leads-nightwatch-google-s-internal-1825227132

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• Woman in charge of privacy, panic ensues. Woman in charge of privacy, panic ensues. (Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:16AM (2 children)

  by Bot (3902) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:16AM (#668500) Journal

  I guess the worst part of her job is keeping her mouth shut when her friends ask her "so how are things at work"?

  (no, I am not sexist, I just collect factoids over the internet. One of them is: Jesus announced his resurrection to a woman, first. So that the news spread more quickly.)

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• Re:Woman in charge of privacy, panic ensues. Re:Woman in charge of privacy, panic ensues. (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:30AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:30AM (#668502)

  You should be aware that many things you find on the internet are not, in fact, factoids. And even where they are, they are not the result of unbiased sampling, even if you do an unbiased sampling of the internet (which you are unlikely to do, even if you are not actively trying to bias your sampling).

  So whatever you collect on the internet will, by its very nature, be affected both by your biases, and by the collective biases of the internet users. Also note that those two are not independent either, as whatever you find on the internet will likely affect your own bias, too, in ways you most likely are not even aware of.

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  • Re:Woman in charge of privacy, panic ensues. (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:34AM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:34AM (#668504) Journal

    ACK, I will put your un-factual biased-both-ways assertion in my database.

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