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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by giancarlostoro on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:51PM (#48769322)
> I do differential privacy work for GDPR compliance and it's an interesting technology.

You mean legislation?

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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by nl on Thursday July 02, 2026 @09:34PM (#48769622)
No?

We do GDPR-compliant reporting by using differential privacy to provably remove PII.

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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by giancarlostoro on Thursday July 02, 2026 @11:52PM (#48770496)
Your sentence reads weird, like if you're missing some key words or context.
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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by hiddencost on Friday July 03, 2026 @01:31AM (#48771168)
"Differential privacy" is the technology they are referring to. Their English is fine, you're the one missing something.
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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by giancarlostoro on Friday July 03, 2026 @12:11PM (#48776701)
I mean, English is not my first language, so there is that.
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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by gib444 on Thursday July 02, 2026 @11:37PM (#48770419)
"PII" in the context of GDPR...?
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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by jolmg on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:08AM (#48771827)
>> remove PII
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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by gib444 on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:39AM (#48772082)
PII isn't a GDPR term
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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by disgruntledphd2 on Friday July 03, 2026 @04:33AM (#48772464)
Personal data is though, and the two terms have relatively similar meanings.
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Re:An American Privacy Emergency by gib444 on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:28AM (#48783718)
US data privacy terms are US data privacy terms, not GDPR terms.

It's sloppy use of language by someone who works in the sector.

And businesses wanting to be compliant with GDPR should not be misled with US PII terminology

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