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Privacy for the Public

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By Cillian Kieran
| CPO Magazine Verified
I woke up on May 24 to the internet proclaiming the privacy downfall of DuckDuckGo. An external auditor reported on a “secret data flow list” that enables the sharing of data with Microsoft for third-party advertising. The audit describes how DuckDuckGo’s web browser did not block data transfers to ad platforms owned by Microsoft—LinkedIn and Bing—when the auditor was on a site that was not a Microsoft property.
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Podcast 406: Making Agile work for data science

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By Ryan Donovan Verified, Corissa Haury, Cassidy Williams Verified, Cillian Kieran
| The Stack Overflow Podcast
Data scientists and engineers don’t always play well together. Data scientists will plan out a solution, carefully build models, test them in notebooks, then throw that solution over the wall to engineering. Implementing that solution in the software product they work on can take months. On this episode of the podcast, we chat with Michael Carrico, director of data science, and Chris Wones, Engineering Lead for Merch Analytics and Operations.
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Best practices can slow your application down

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By Roberta Arcoverde, Ryan Donovan Verified, Cillian Kieran, Isaac Lyman
| The Stack Overflow Podcast
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2022.] Update: I realize we didn’t add a lot of context here when telling the story of the engineering decisions we made years ago, and why we’re moving away from some of them now. This is an attempt to fix that omission.
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