Opinion: Companies have treated anonymization as a legal safe harbor and commercial baseline, but AI is making it easier to ...

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 ...

For more than two decades, researchers have chipped away at the assumption that anonymized collections of data could protect the identities of research subjects as long as the datasets did not include ...

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 ...

Anonymization has the potential to foster the sharing of medical data. State-of-the-art methods use mathematical models to modify data to reduce privacy risks. However, the degree of protection must ...