When Online Dating Met Facebook
At this week’s Facebook Developer Conference, or F8, the social network company announced that it will begin introducing online dating […]
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NIST challenge targets better de-identification techniques for public data
One barrier to opening up valuable government datasets is making sure that all necessary personally identifiable information (PII) is removed beforehand — a […]
Palantir Knows Everything About You
Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate […]
Data Provider YouGov Pins Hopes On Blockchain To Ensure GDPR Compliance
While some ad tech and data companies are shuttering their EU operations in light of the upcoming GDPR, others are […]
Blockchain: Practical use cases for the privacy pro — Learning from Estonia
Estonia, the tiny European country, has become a technological powerhouse and is the headquarters for NATO’s Cyber Defense Centre. Estonia […]
Facial recognition helps teams and advertisers learn about fans
Sports teams and stadiums are turning to high-tech start-ups to learn more about their fans, with implications for your privacy. […]
Mozilla’s approach to sponsored content aims to protect privacy
For a few months now, Mozilla and Pocket have been testing a new initiative to bring users a high-quality personalized […]
China Claims It’s Scanning Workers’ Brainwaves to Increase Efficiency and Profits
At a factory in Hangzhou, China, production line workers are allegedly being outfitted with brain-reading hats and helmets. They read […]
Privacy by Design: Building a Privacy Policy People Actually Want to Read
Article 12 of GDPR mandates that privacy notices be “concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible”. Legal design is not just […]
EU: data-harvesting tech firms are ‘sweatshops of connected world’
The European data protection supervisor has hit out at social media and tech firms over the recent constant stream of […]
Chinese jaywalkers receive their fine immediately through SMS
Facial recognition technology is really starting to become a big deal in China. It wasn’t that long ago when Chinese […]
Singapore to Test Facial Recognition on Lampposts, Stoking Privacy Fears
In the not too distant future, surveillance cameras sitting atop over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could help authorities pick out […]