{
  "id": 2441,
  "url": "https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902",
  "title": "An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.",
  "summary": "Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC, there was much talk about a recent Trump administration action that would ban not only differential privacy, but […]",
  "authors": "Scott",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "bias-fairness,privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-02T20:26:38.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-shtetl-optimized-scott-aaronson",
  "source_name": "Shtetl-Optimized (Scott Aaronson)",
  "source_homepage": "https://scottaaronson.blog",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2441",
  "original_url": "https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}