LLMs Enable Large-Scale Deanonymization
LLMs make large-scale deanonymization practical by extracting identity signals from text, retrieving candidates with embeddings, and using reasoning to verify matches at high precision.
pseudonymisation
EU Council Rejects Changes to GDPR Personal Data Definition
EU countries reject the Commission’s proposal to change the GDPR personal data definition, prioritizing stronger privacy protections and the EDPB’s guidance on pseudonymisation.
EDPB Adopts Guidelines on Pseudonymisation and Statement on Data Protection Cooperation
The EDPB adopted guidelines on pseudonymisation and a position paper on data protection and competition law, emphasizing cooperation and compliance with GDPR.
EU General Court Clarifies When Pseudonymized Data is Considered Personal Data
EU Court emphasized that the transmission of pseudonymized data to a data recipient will not be considered personal data if the recipient cannot re-identify the data subjects.
Spanish Supervisory Authority and EDPS release guidance on hashing for data pseudonymization and anonymization purposes
On November 4, 2019, the Spanish Supervisory Authority (“AEPD”), in collaboration with the European Data Protection Supervisor, published guidance on the […]
Protecting Customers’ Privacy Requires More than Anonymizing Their Data
The promised benefits of data-driven marketing are at grave risk unless businesses can do a better job of protecting against […]
Pseudonymised data in scope of portability rules
Personal data that has been subjected to pseudonymisation will be in scope of new data portability rules, the UK’s data […]
Irish DPC issues guidance on anonymisation and pseudonymisation
In August 2016, Data Protection Commissioner (?DPC?) of Ireland published guidance on the use of data anonymisation and pseudonymisation.?Guidance provides […]