Census releases guidelines for controversial privacy tool
the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday announced guidelines for how a controversial statistical method will be applied to the numbers used for drawing congressional and legislative districts.
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This Tool Can Make Your Pics Undetectable To Facial Recognition
A new tool is promising to make your pictures undetectable to facial recognition software without significantly changing their appearance.
New tool makes it possible to do research on patient records without seeing sensitive information
Researchers have developed a new tool that can collect information from electronic health records without disclosing sensitive patient information.
Facebook open-sources differential privacy tool
Facebook’s Opacus is a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that’s ostensibly more scalable than existing state-of-the-art methods. […]
Microsoft develops new differential privacy platform
Microsoft recently launched differential privacy platform, which injects a small amount of statistical “noise” to large data sets to protect […]
CISA Releases New Cyber Essentials Toolkit
As a follow-up to the November 2019 release of Cyber Essentials, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the […]
EU publishes toolbox for coronavirus tracking apps
Contact tracing apps, if fully compliant with EU rules and well coordinated, can play a key role in all phases […]
Microsoft launches open-source privacy mapping tool
Microsoft has launched a new open-source tool mapping ISO’s global privacy standard, ISO/IEC 27701, to nine different privacy laws from […]
Personal information management systems: A new era for individual privacy?
PIMS, also referred to as personal data stores, personal data spaces, or personal data vaults, are systems that allow people […]
NSA will open source a tool for malware disassembly and reverse engineering
Dubbed GHIDRA, the tool will allow folks au fait with cyber security to pick apart binaries for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, […]
Is It Really Possible to Use the Internet Privately?
There are many resources to limit your exposure to threats on the internet. There are countless ways to control what […]
Consent management platforms are purchased less often than other privacy tools
With the massive new requirements for user consent in the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the new California privacy […]