Dropbox has denied claims that researchers obtained non-anonymized data from users of the cloud file storage service. A study by Northwestern University researchers posted Friday, and co-bylined with ...

Anonymized data sets are a joke. And, as a newly published study shows, the joke just so happens to be on you. From your credit card purchases to your medical records to your online browsing history, ...

Anonymized mobile phone location data produces a GPS fingerprint that can be easily used to identify a user based on little more than tracking the pings a phone makes to cell towers, a new study shows ...

When most of us think of how the concept of “data” has been skewered by the press, we’re probably thinking about an app’s location data tipping off our home address, or apps like Grindr tipping ...

From healthcare to advertising, 'anonymizing' data allows those who collect it to sidestep privacy laws such as GDPR or the US’s California Consumer Privacy Act ...

Merely existing in the modern world means giving up a wealth of your information to countless institutions and services. While many of the places make promises to keep your identifiable data as secure ...

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In what appears to be a first, a public figure has been ousted after de-anonymized mobile phone location data was publicly reported, revealing sensitive and previously private details about his life.

Machine learning is taking hold in all kinds of applications, from self-driving cars to image recognition to online recommendation engines. But unless you’re a Google or a Facebook, it’s hard to get ...

Providing third-parties with data is a necessary cost of living in the 21st century. Whether it’s securing auto insurance, undergoing a routine examination at the dentist, or chatting up friends and ...

Thanks to the near-complete saturation of the city with sensors and smartphones, we humans are now walking, talking data factories. Passing through a subway turnstile, sending a text, even just ...