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    from 4643dff  2.3.4: add e.g.,
     new 4de58ff  yikes, I had not realized where this reference went to, none 
is better than this
     new c332747  making clear that this is not just implementing the 2003 paper
     new ce9b811  bringing the agencies to the front here, spell-checking with 
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Summary of changes:
 doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/intro.tex | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/intro.tex 
b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/intro.tex
index 8cedaac..fdc30ec 100644
--- a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/intro.tex
+++ b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/intro.tex
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ organizations but also how much they gave to which.
 
 Individual spending quickly becomes very intimate and personal, as even
 aggregate spending habits can reveal a great deal about people through
-behavioural analytics and
+behavioral analytics and
 psychographic profiling.~\cite{purchase2018wen,purchasepsyco2019gladstone}
 This holds even more for
 acts of donating, which is typically highly revealing about e.g. belief systems
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ This happens in particular when such organizations
 employ third party (often for-profit) agencies to help ``yield'' more donations
 on a commission basis.  For-profit fund
 raising agencies often engage in privacy-invasive practices to identify and 
contact potential donors.
-One common scenario is that after a first donation, such bad actors % calling 
them "bad actors" might be unnecessarily opinionated. From a privacy 
perspective they are not good, but many organizations also rely on these 
services to not go bankrupt. -JL
+One common scenario is that after a first donation, such agencies % calling 
them "bad actors" might be unnecessarily opinionated. From a privacy 
perspective they are not good, but many organizations also rely on these 
services to not go bankrupt. -JL
 start to aggressively pressure a particular donor for more --- with 
personalized
 emails, letters, phone calls and even in-person visits.
-Donor information may also be shared between organizations,
+They also reuse donor information between charities,
 leading to an avalanche of donation requests from organizations that the donor 
might not be interested in supporting.
 
 In the era of data-driven donations and corporate social media
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ facilities for cultural philanthropies, offering more 
attractive rates of tax
 benefits than for regular philanthropies. Obviously, this needs to be taken
 into account when designing a system, but does not take away the fundamental
 premise that within those categories it is no concern of a government which
-particular recognised causes are supported.
+particular recognized causes are supported.
 
 In this work we solve the issue of privacy-preserving donations with
 tax deductions by adhering to ``privacy by design'': In cases where
@@ -199,10 +199,12 @@ their privacy as well as the current context allows.
 \subsection{Digital Cash}
 
 Digital cash~\cite{Chaum89} based on tokens issued using blind
-signatures~\cite{DemHeuz2022} has previously been
+signatures has previously been
 suggested~\cite{donations2003blind} as a foundation for donation systems that 
allow
 donors to remain anonymous but easily identify donation recipients.
 The untraceability of the underlying payment system for purchases easily 
provides untraceability in the donation context as well.
+The crucial difference is that the Donau system gives tax-deductible donation
+receipts without revealing the charity donated to.
 
 Our current implementation is designed to work in conjunction with the
 GNU Taler~\cite{Taler} payment system.  GNU Taler is a {\em digital

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