Why a ruling on digital ID by Kenya's High Court has global implications for online privacy
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Giulia Fanti is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She has a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department and is a member of CyLab. She is interested in blockchains, learning, distributed systems, and privacy-preserving technologies.