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 ...

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 ...

Data protection has been a hot subject recently, especially because several companies dealt with serious data breaches and faced the associated consequences. Properly safeguarding information is ...

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 ...

Data privacy has become one of the most pressing challenges for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) providers—especially those serving banks, fintechs, and financial institutions. In an era where ...

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 ...

For deidentification under the traditional laws like HIPAA, removal of identifiers qualifies. That was a key facet of what I discussed last week on an anonymization panel during the IAPP Europe Data ...

In this study, clustering is conceived as an auxiliary tool to identify groups of special interest. This approach was applied to a real dataset concerning an entire Portuguese cohort of higher ...