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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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Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:56PM
*dons oven proof hat*
OR they got access to enough data that 99.9% of users are easily identified anyway.
Ok ok, seems more likely that they don't really care about real identity as they can still send ads to your account. Better to have a larger herd than to know every detail about each animal.