In the Metaverse, Your Identity Can Be Revealed Just by Moving

Devorah Fischler, (Penn Engineering Today(, 21 Feb 2023,
via ACM TechNews, 22 Feb 2023

A team of researchers led by University of Pennsylvania (Penn) computer
scientists confirmed the existence of vulnerabilities that leave U.S. Census
data open to exposure and theft. Using a commercial laptop and a basic
machine learning algorithm, the researchers were able to reverse-engineer
aggregated data released by the U.S. Census Bureau to reveal individual
respondents' protected information. Penn's Michael Kearns said, “What's
novel about our approach …

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