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IAPP Managing Director, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan shares his weekly reflections on the happenings in Washington and the U.S. government.
A new research paper written by a team of academics and computer scientists from Spain and Austria has demonstrated that it’s possible to use Facebook’s targeting tools to deliver an ad exclusively to a single individual if you know enough about the interests Facebook’s platform assigns them. The paper — entitled Unique on Facebook: Formulation […]
Researchers show how anonymized data sets are often anything but anonymous, releasing a tool that demonstrates how easy it is to pick you out of a digital crowd.
Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.
The US Census is moving to differential privacy, after running a successful privacy attack on their 2010 release. Let's look at this attack in more detail!
You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you.
Explore the research of the Computational Privacy Group on anonymity online. Take a short quiz to find out what makes you more vulnerable to re-identification, explore anonymity in 89 countries around the world, or train our method with your own datasets.
When most of us think of how the concept of “data” has been skewered by the press, we’re probably thinking about an app’s location data tipping off our home address, or apps like Grindr tipping advertisers off about our sexuality. What’s less scrutinized, both by the public and by those in public office, is data that’s…
About a dozen health-care systems will co-own a private Seattle-based startup company that will anonymize data from millions of patients and make it available to researchers, health-care providers and pharmaceutical companies.
Labs and other companies make millions selling bundles of medical data—and it’s not as anonymized as you might think
Thai database leaks 8.3 billion Internet records Including DNS queries and NetFlow data.
Artificial intelligence is emerging as the first line of defense against cyber-threats, but how can it withstand the exploitation of hackers?
With the abysmal state of healthcare in this country, it shouldn’t be surprising that tech companies—specifically those in the app space—have swooped in left and right to solve the ills that the federal government can’t or won’t. Want to monitor your blood pressure? There’s an app for that. Mental health got you down? …
Yodlee, America’s largest financial data broker, says the data it sells it is anonymous. A confidential document obtained by Motherboard shows people could be unmasked in the data.
Banning re-identification discourages researchers from finding weaknesses, and encourages criminals to exploit them.