Data routinely gathered in Web logs – IP address, cookie ID, operating system, browser type, user-agent strings – can threaten online privacy because they can be used to identify the activity of ...

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 ...

Breaking Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world's most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba. The ...

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, ...

Your medical information, credit card purchases, rewards cards, online browsing history — it is all collected and sold with the promise that it is anonymized. In theory, that means that the data ...

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 ...

Meta will soon begin “collecting anonymized data” from users of its Quest headsets, a move that could see the company aggregating information about hand, body, and eye tracking; camera information; ...