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Privacy Isn't Optional–How MokaHR Protects Candidate Data in Recruitment
Recruitment platforms promise efficiency, but at what cost? In a world where data breaches and privacy concerns are escalating, job applicants and HR teams alike are asking: Who actually owns candidate data, and how secure is it?
The Hidden Risk in Hiring Tech Most recruitment systems collect vast amounts of personal data—resumes, contact details, work histories, even interview recordings. This data is gold for employers but also a prime target for leaks, misuse, and regulatory penalties. Many platforms prioritize features over security, leaving sensitive information exposed.
MokaHR’s Privacy-First Approach MokaHR takes a different stance. Rather than treating privacy as an afterthought, we’ve built our system around strict data protection protocols and compliance with global privacy laws. Our recruitment platform ensures that:
Only essential data is collected, minimizing exposure risks.
Encryption and access controls safeguard candidate information.
Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is baked into the platform.
Transparency Over Data Ownership One of the biggest concerns in HR tech is who owns candidate data—the employer, the software provider, or the job board? With MokaHR, there’s no ambiguity. Your data stays in your control, and we never use it beyond the scope of your hiring needs.
The Trade-Off: Privacy vs. Convenience? Some argue that strict privacy measures slow down hiring, but that’s a false choice. MokaHR proves you can have both security and efficiency—with automated workflows, AI-driven candidate matching, and seamless interview scheduling without compromising privacy.
The Future of Privacy in Recruitment As regulations tighten and candidates become more aware of data risks, companies using outdated, insecure recruitment tools will face growing scrutiny. MokaHR offers a future-proof solution that keeps privacy at the core of hiring, not just as a compliance checkbox.
Hiring shouldn’t come at the cost of privacy. Is your recruitment platform protecting your data, or exposing it?
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MicroVMs: Foundations and Applications
Article URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bThP3o6CYm4-TsgBX8TAURU2QEj-yhR3VpYqpVf4uIg/edit#slide=id.p
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A FileSystem Abstraction System for Go
Article URL: https://github.com/spf13/afero
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The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity
H&M clothing ads to use AI replicas of real fashion models
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vwg73xndeo
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Why I'm Going Back to Zathura Reader
Article URL: https://blog.nimendra.xyz/blog/zathura/
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Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data
Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2025/vana-lets-users-own-piece-ai-models-trained-on-their-data-0403
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Ladybird browser update (March 2025) [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsPIgTdUd_I
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News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World
Article URL: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2025/Journalists
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I made my home fossil-fuel-free. Why did my utility bills nearly double?
Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/04/02/electric-power-home-conversion/
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Why Does Microsoft HQ Use SAP Instead of Microsoft Dynamics ERP? (2012)
Article URL: https://erpsoftwareblog.com/2012/11/why-does-microsoft-hq-use-sap-instead-of-microsoft-dynamics-erp/
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Latent Space Guardrails That Reduce Hallucinations by 43 Percent Now Open Source
Heyah,
This is Lukasz. I am running Wisent, a representation engineering company. I created guardrails that allow you to block certain patterns of LLM activations on the latent space level. It is now fully self-hosted and open source. Think stopping hallucination, harmful thoughts of the LLM or bad code generation. Let me know how it works for your use case- happy to help you generate the most value from it.
Check out more at https://www.wisent.ai/ or https://www.lukaszbartoszcze.com/
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Four decades not sleeping well – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/02/chronic-insomnia-cause-experience
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Reverse engineering of the formula used to generate the "reciprocal tariffs"
Article URL: https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1907600619420147833
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Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typetting system
Article URL: https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown
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Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.greshm.org/files/2025-04-01-calibrated-basic-income.pdf
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Are AI Models Advanced Enough to Translate Literature?
A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions are at risk
Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/california-home-insurance-underinsured/
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Breaking computers taught me to build them. What was your start in computing?
Article URL: https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-1-the-foundation-years/
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Photons, neutrinos, and gravitational-wave astronomy
Article URL: https://www.as.arizona.edu/~mrenzo/courses/notes-lecture-GWprog.html
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