Canadian privacy experts have issued a new report that strongly backs the practice of de-identification as a key element in the protection of personal information. The report validates that that ...

The ICO has published its data protection code of practice (.pdf), which aims to help businesses and consumers understand individual privacy legislation. When more and more data is being placed in the ...

Personal information can be routinely de-identified before it is used or disclosed for a wide range of purposes, such as research, where it is not necessary to know the identity of individuals.

When clean rooms were first introduced, they served as secure, protected environments where personally identifiable information was anonymized, processed and stored for measurement or data ...

With the first large fines for breaching GDPR upon us, even anonymized datasets can be traced back to individuals using machine learning, researchers from University of Louvain and Imperial College ...

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 ...

With the first large fines for breaching EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations upon us, and the UK government about to review GDPR guidelines, researchers have shown how even ...

In a post on its company blog, the private social network Path has stated that it will begin hashing user contact data in order to make it anonymous and protect it. This is in response to issues that ...