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		dkubb on Feb 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on '... Also, why don't they share the lists with each other? They don't need government help to do this. If there are privacy issues then they could just share a list of hashes and if someone's legal name hashes to something on the list then you deny them.

rafale on Feb 5, 2022 [–]

In pure HN comment degeneracy: they could then claim to be victim of a hash collision and you won't be able to prove it while maintaining privacy.

Also a hash doesn't provide privacy in itself. It just make enumerating people in the database more difficult.

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