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Corporations love to pretend that 'anonymization' of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that’s not really true.
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…
Students find website data leaks pose greater risks than most people realize
Data enrichment applies to the process of enhancing, refining, and improving raw data. Used by companies to improve marketing efforts, data enrichment impacts both privacy and security.
Maybe I’m the last one to know about this, but just in case… Did you know that the Census Bureau is changing what and how it’ll release data the 2020 Census? I mentioned this in p…
Nature Communications - Anonymization has been the main means of addressing privacy concerns in sharing medical and socio-demographic data. Here, the authors estimate the likelihood that a specific...
Activists are identifying the men behind the helmets, truncheons, and riot shields, and sharing their names, dates of birth, and links to their social media profiles.
Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can pick out almost any American in databases supposedly stripped of personal information.
Interactive "how identifiable are you?" game
From healthcare to customer service, anonymised data is vital to improving the world around us. But it is all too easy to reverse engineer.
The ‘Revised Common Rule’ took effect on January 21, 2019, marking the first change since 2005 to the federal regulation that governs human subjects research co
I. Introduction Today, almost everything about our lives is digitally recorded and stored somewhere. Every interaction with technology creates data about that user. Each credit card purchase, medic…
A case currently making its way through the Supreme Court’s docket may have far-reaching implications for the future of privacy litigation. The case, Frank v. G
Advances in artificial intelligence, including activity trackers, smartphones and smartwatches, threaten the privacy of people's health data, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
This cross-sectional study of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data sets evaluates the feasibility of reidentifying accelerometer-measured physical activity data that have had protected health information removed, using support vector machines and random forest methods from machine...
Urban planners and researchers at MIT found that it’s shockingly easy to “reidentify” the anonymous data that people generate all day, every day in cities.
A recovered 98MB file underscores the risks of trusting personal info to strangers.