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Prochlo: Strong Privacy for Analytics in the Crowd
The large-scale monitoring of computer users' software activities has become
commonplace, e.g., for application telemetry, error reporting, or demographic
profiling. This paper describes a principled systems architecture---Encode,
Shuffle, Analyze (ESA)---for performing such monitoring with high utility while
also protecting user privacy. The ESA design, and its Prochlo implementation,
are informed by our practical experiences with an existing, large deployment of
privacy-preserving software monitoring.
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Philosophers and Scientists Are Social Epistemic Agents
In this paper, I reply to Markus Arnold’s comment and Amanda Bryant’s comment on my
work “Can Kuhn’s Taxonomic Incommensurability be an Image of Science?” in Moti
Mizrahi’s edited collection, The Kuhnian Image of Science: Time for a Decisive
Transformation?. Philosophers and scientists are social epistemic agents. As such, they ought to behave in accordance with epistemic norms governing the behavior of social epistemic agents
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