The Times Privacy Project was given access to a data set with more than 50 billion location “pings” from the phones of more than 12 million Americans across several major cities. Each piece of information came down to a set of coordinates in time. The result is a tapestry of movement laid across a city …
Continue reading “Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked”
Elizabeth M. Renieris, founder of HackyLawyer wrote this important piece for organizations thinking about consent as part of their #GDPR / #CCPA planning. Adopting the ideas of contextual identity will reduce the risk of your propositions failing. “Contextual integrity ties adequate protection for privacy to norms of specific contexts, demanding that information gathering and dissemination …
“It seems every news cycle comes with its share of “data gloom”. Just look at lamentations over a “loss of digital sovereignty” (John Thornhill, November 26) or the dismayed unveiling of healthcare websites’ opaque data tracking practices (Rana Foroohar, November 18). The tools we need to empower us, the data subjects, have been hiding in …
Continue reading “Letter: Legal instruments exist to empower us, the data subjects”
“Digital identity” opens up a huge can of worms, or what Wilson calls a “sea change” in the entire field: It turns out that the problems we’ve been trying to solve in digital identity are actually much bigger problems across the digital economy, to do with verification of claims and verification of data – the …
Continue reading “Steve Wilson says digital identity is dead, so where do we go from here?”
For data about EU citizens, it shouldn’t be possible to ‘single out an individual, link records relating to an individual or infer information concerning an individual’ without their consent – according to the GDPR. However, there are many situations where you need to use the data, for example, to facilitate software development, where you need …
Continue reading “8 Fundamental Data Anonymization Mistakes That Could Put Your Business At Risk”
“This paper proceeds from an analysis of the very particular type of vulnerability concomitant with our ‘leaking’ data on a daily basis, to show that data ownership is both unlikely and inadequate as an answer to the problems at stake. We also argue that the current construction of top-down regulatory constraints on contractual freedom is …
“Please take the time to watch and reflect upon the most important segment from Singularity ever. Ever. Yet, it was ignored by most because the assumption from all the digital experts and entrepreneurs is that they are going to own everyone’s personal data and use it for their exponential benefit. Wrong. The adtech model is …
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. The suggestion is that no “anonymized” and released big data set can be considered safe from re-identification — not without strict access controls. “Our results suggest …
Continue reading “Researchers spotlight the lie of ‘anonymous’ data”
The Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission had a bright idea back in the mid-1990s—it decided to release “anonymized” data on state employees that showed every single hospital visit. The goal was to help researchers, and the state spent time removing all obvious identifiers such as name, address, and Social Security number.87 percent of all Americans could …
Continue reading ““Anonymized” data really isn’t—and here’s why not”