Common computer languages make it difficult for computer programers to protect users' privacy and keep users from truly understanding how these programmers are using their information. As such, privacy must be less of a programming afterthought and instead an inherent element, Carnegie Mellon University's Jean Yang writes in an op-ed for The Conversation. Computerizing privacy settings, instead of relying on programmers to manually code them, is one solution. "We can — and should — develop programming models that allow us to more easily incorporate security and privacy into software," Yang writes. 
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