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 ...

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 ...

Hitachi announced the development of technology to securely anonymize encrypted personal data. Anonymization converts information related to individuals, personal information, to a form which cannot ...

Data is all around us, to the point where it can potentially be unnerving. But Jiaming Xu, assistant professor in decision sciences at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, stressed that ...

This training session is meant for the University of Helsinki researchers and staff. The training focuses on anonymizing research data in a pragmatic manner. It deals with the anonymization of both ...

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 ...

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 ...