Public, private and government organizations are now, more than ever, concerned about how to implement data privacy, given that many countries have begun regulating by creating national standards and ...

Varying standards and new technology that makes re-identifying data easier is putting pressure on companies to "get serious" about their data anonymization efforts. While lawyers chase the patchwork ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is hungry for data—the more real-world data we can give it, the better. AI applications can deliver immense value when provided with a continuous stream of robust, ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a long-standing habit of creating legal obligations through blog posts. Recent communications from the FTC by way of its Office of Technology Blog evidence an ...

Researchers from two universities in Europe have published a method they say is able to correctly re-identify 99.98% of individuals in anonymized data sets with just 15 demographic attributes. Their ...

Before implementing a project of any kind, we ask which factors we should keep in mind to ensure project success. To be clear, the question isn't what we should do; I'm pretty sure everyone's got a ...

In today's technology-driven landscape, cameras have become ubiquitous sensors, present in almost every device - from autonomous vehicles to smart glasses and smart home gadgets. The proliferation of ...

Jeff Jonas, the chief scientist and distinguished engineer at IBM’s entity analytic solutions group, has developed a means of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains. This ...