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For questions related to privacy (user permissions / security techniques, internet tracking system such as Cookies, Web bugs etc.)

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Implementation techinque for differential privacy

I am currently doing an experiment on a dataset using differential privacy concepts. So, I am trying to implement one of the mechanisms of differential privacy namely Laplace mechanisms using a sample dataset from UCI Machine Repository and python…
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Android : Hide app content in multitasking view

Anyone knows how to hide the content of your app when the user goes in the Current Apps Manager? Like this is link is explaining for ios : http://pinkstone.co.uk/how-to-control-the-preview-screenshot-in-the-ios-multitasking-switcher/ Thanks!
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firefox tracking protection breaks facebook login

I am using simple facebook login from the cookbook in my web application. If firefox have the privacy.trackingprotection.enabled setting set to true, then the following happens: the window with facebook login pops up if the user is not logged in to…
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How to store private pictures and videos in Ruby on Rails

Here's a story: User A should be able to upload an image. User A should be able to set a privacy. ("Public" or "Private"). User B should not be able to access "Private" images of User A. I'm planning to user Paperclip for dealing with uploads. If…
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Is hosting on Dropbox private, anonymous?

I've seen others host images on Dropbox. Is there a way to find out the user hosting the file? For example, if I post a Dropbox picture online, can any user find my name or username? Can link it to other uploads? Thanks
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Github: "This email will not be used for commit blame"

How can I use a fake email address with Github? Following Github's since-changed instructions, I had a fake email like user@server.fake configured with git (git config --global user.email "user@server.fake") and registered on my email settings…
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Will this protect me from Etag tracking?

Background: ETag tracking is well explained here and also mentioned on Wikipedia. An answer I wrote in a response to "How can I prevent tracking by ETags?" has driven me to write this question. I have a browser-side solution which prevents ETag…
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Oracle hide columns from certain users

The scenario : an Oracle 11g database containing some sensitive user data that could result legal liabilities if disclosed to the wrong party. The desired effect : only a certain user, connecting from a certain IP, can see the column that contains…
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How can I auto-generate unique fake names for users?

We would like to give each of users an alias so that we can refer to them in discussions while protecting their identity. These aliases should be unique. The easy way would be to simply use a SERIAL column, but ints aren't memorable. We would like…
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how can cookies track users despite same origin policy?

Article here discusses tactics used by political campaigns. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/us/politics/campaigns-mine-personal-lives-to-get-out-vote.html The part in question is quoted: The campaigns have planted software known as cookies on…
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Is it "safe" to install Android Device Administration applications in terms of privacy?

Is it "safe" to install Android Device Administration applications on my personal device? Can my company read my private data with that application? My company recently adopted a policy to install an enterprise application on each employee's…
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How to prove to our users that they are not being cheated?

I have an information theory question about how to prove (or at least give statistical evidence) that an auction website is not shilling its users. We recently launched a pay-per-bid auction website. It is a new type of auction where the users pay…
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Like button and privacy concern

I'm operating a website within the EU and nowadays there's no way without those social buttons all around (according to "them" "up there"). Recently there's a concern about the legality of this in the EU, notably the collection of user information…
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How does Apple Mail Privacy Protection actually work?

I am interested to understand how Apple's Mail Privacy Protection feature that seemingly won't allow Marketers to track email opens anymore actually works. Apple announced Mail Privacy Protection in today's keynote and a blog article: In the Mail…
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Is it possible to tell the browser not to focus (bring to front) the selected window from `getDisplayMedia`?

I am working on an application using getDisplayMedia. When the browser prompts me to share my screen/a window and I select a specific window to share, that window is now suddenly focused and in front of my other windows (in particular, in front of…
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