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 ...

Back in March 2007, Google promised to begin anonymizing log data to better protect user privacy. That kicked off a wave of privacy pledges from competing search engines. In addition, by agreeing to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With AI Training, Data 'Anonymization' Runs Risk of Becoming a Fig Leaf 'Data Anonymization' is a favorite term for tech providers seeking to train their generative AI systems on user data. But data ...

From law-enforcement operations, witness protection, and privacy concerns caused by deepfakes, the ability to anonymize speech is sought after by both government agencies and individuals concerned ...

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published guidance for the use of location data and contacts tracing tools intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Europe’s data ...

Collecting network traffic traces from deployed networks is one of the basic steps in understanding communication networks. These traces may be used for network management, traffic engineering, packet ...