Flipping A Coin Of Privacy

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Flipping a coin of privacy with FB vs. Ca The concept of flipping a coin is not new in the affairs of men. It has been used to resolve dicey situations over time and again. Flipping a coin is considered fair generally because both the head and tail which are the two likely possibilities have equal chances of occurring.
Coin Flipping; the generic use
Coin flipping has been used generally and commonly in the following ways over time:
Mathematics
In the field of mathematics, statistics to be precise; Bernoulli process is the term used to describe the abstraction of the statistics of coin flipping. Bernoulli trial is the terminology used to describe a single flip of a coin. When it comes to the study of statistics, the flipping of a coin plays …show more content…

A national election tied is decided by the flipping of a coin in the United kingdom as well as the U.S.A as seen in 2017 for example when an election to the 94th District of the Virginia House of Delegates resulted in both Republican incumbent David Yancey and Democratic challenger Shelly Simmonds tied with exactly 11,608 votes. A coin was flipped during this particular occasion to decide the winner.

Dispute resolution
In the case of an argument that is seemingly leading nowhere, flipping a coin can come in handy as a veritable tool to help resolve the conundrum and arrive at a conclusion where none of the two parties involved feel cheated in any way.
In Sports
Coin flipping is also used to make decisions in the world of sport. Various sports employ coin flipping in making critical decisions. In a football match for example, the flipping of a coin is used to decide various things and particularly which team kicks off the game by the referee. …show more content…

• If for example Bryan says, "heads".
• David of course will tell him that he has just won, and go on to prove it by showing him the string "tail qwertyuiop asdfghjkl ".
• If Bryan is interested in confirming that David has not deceived him, he would do that by computing the SHA-1 of the string himself.
• Apart from that, Bryan by also providing his own randomly generated string ensures that David was not able to compute beforehand an image pair of "tail/random string" or "head/random string".

Cambridge analytica versus Face book; the scandal
The world was turned into turmoil on 17th of March 2018 when words came out that a data firm based in the United Kingdom; Cambridge Analytica had been diligently taking their time to download the data of 50 million Face book users which they intend using to analyze specific people who voted for the incumbent President of the United states of America; President Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign. The incident brought the consciousness if people all around the world to the damage that can be done when privacy on the internet is treated with

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