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Par for the course. I would expect their PR teams to do this. They do it for CEOs and other executives too. If you can/need to pay for a PR team it will happen.

Please. It's the only option available to a lot of people anymore especially with COVID shutdowns but it's part of a larger shift to a knowledge-economy. There aren't many jobs for unskilled workers anymore and getting skills is too expensive for the poor. Ignoring that reality is ridiculous and only proves you don't argue in good faith.

Right. Even if you assume the worst-case-scenario there isn't some standard risk metric nor threshold to meet.

I feel like differential privacy is the strongest definition we have, but it is also lacking from a practical standpoint. What does it mean to have N nats/bits of information gain from seeing the result of a query? How does this translate to my risk of a PII leak?

Risk of re-identification is hard to estimate. It's mostly because you have to assume some state of background knowledge. I.e. what fields does the adversary even know something about.

If Im looking for a white male in new york city it's going to be harder to find my target than it would be if I also know their birth date and zip code.

I could see that for a field like biology. In some other disciplines older texts weather better.