PROBABLY PRIVATE

A newsletter on data privacy by Katharine Jarmul

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Probably Private is a newsletter for privacy and data science enthusiasts. Whether you are here to learn about data science via the lens of privacy, or the other way around, this newsletter aims to be an open conversation on technical and social aspects of privacy and its intersections with surveillance, law, technology, mathematics and probability.
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Past Issues

  • Meta's Mega-GDPR-Fine and Data Sovereignty, Ethical E-Commerce and Empowerment
    This issue covers the 1.2B€/$1.3B fine handed down by European authorities to Meta, as well as why this fine could change the way data flows in our world. I also share my recent experience attending the ethical e-commerce summit, which provided inspiration on how to empower small- and medium-sized businesses to approach sustainability, ethical data use and built-in privacy.
  • ChatGPT & GDPR Showdown, AINow Report and Privacy, Privilege & Fraud
    In this issue, you'll learn about the latest updates between GDPR authorities and ChatGPT — including my own experience sending a deletion request. I'll share some highlights from AINow's newest report on power & Big Tech. Following the UK's pension authority's Tweet featuring non-consensual videos of people being taken into custody for alleged "fraud", I'll present the links between privacy, privilege and fraud detection.
  • All your text are belong to ChatGPT
    In this issue, I dive into known privacy and security problems with ChatGPT, including a recent privacy and security incident, an analysis of potential security problems with ChatGPT plugins and musings on how closed training datasets hide unknown risks and ethical implications.
  • Upcoming O'Reilly Book and Building a Privacy-First Newsletter
    This issue announces my upcoming O'Reilly book Practical Data Privacy and explains how I migrated the newsletter to more privacy-first services with much effort and learnings along the way.
  • Justice, Anti-Discrimination Law and AI
    This issue is about racial justice, policing, profiling, machine learning and anti-discrimination law. Rest in Power George Floyd.