Will Google’s and Apple’s COVID Tracking Plan Protect Privacy?
Last week, Google and Apple announced that they were working together to develop privacy-protecting technology that could enable COVID-19 contact-tracing […]
Last week, Google and Apple announced that they were working together to develop privacy-protecting technology that could enable COVID-19 contact-tracing […]
Technology firms are processing large volumes of confidential UK patient information in a data-mining operation that is part of the […]
The nation’s largest financial data broker, Yodlee, holds extensive and supposedly anonymized banking and credit card transaction histories on millions […]
On February 10, 2020, Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) launched its first public consultation procedure. […]
Corporations love to pretend that ‘anonymization’ of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that’s not really true. […]
From a Harry Potter-themed protocol to high-profile coins, cryptocurrency is often not quite as private as it seems. Privacy coins […]
Nearly 25 million people have taken an at-home DNA testing kit and shared that data with one of four ancestry […]
On November 4, 2019, the Spanish Supervisory Authority (“AEPD”), in collaboration with the European Data Protection Supervisor, published guidance on the […]
Recently, well-publicised research by data scientists at Imperial College in London and Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium as well […]
An anonymised dataset is supposed to have had all personally identifiable information removed from it, while retaining a core of […]
Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for […]
Anonymization is hard. Just like cryptography, most people are not qualified to build their own. Unlike cryptography, the research is […]