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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by nomilk on Saturday June 08, 2024 @10:28AM (#40617761)
The Dead Internet Theory says most activity on the internet is by bots [1]. The Dead Privacy Theory says approximately all private data is not private; but rather is accessible on whim by any data scientist, SWE, analyst, or db admin with access to the database.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by htrp on Saturday June 08, 2024 @11:16AM (#40618066)
> The Dead Privacy Theory says approximately all private data is not private; but rather is accessible on whim by any data scientist, SWE, analyst, or db admin with access to the database.

I like this so much I'm definitely stealing it!

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by bearjaws on Saturday June 08, 2024 @12:55PM (#40618848)
Damn, I've talked about this many times at my last job (startup that went from 100k patients to ~2.5M in 5 years). I love the name Dead Privacy Theory
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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by mr_toad on Sunday June 09, 2024 @02:32AM (#40622472)
At least more of that access is logged now. It used to be only the production databases that were properly logged, now it’s more common for every query to be logged, even in dev environments. The next step will be more monitoring of those logs.
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