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January 13, 2021 | 6 minutes read

What Synthetic Data Means to Information Privacy

Synthetic data is a newly looked at emerging tool being considered an option for privacy protection in data science.
Synthetic data is artificially generated and not based on real events. As defined by the McGraw-Hill Dictionary, it is “any production data applicable to a situation that is not obtained by direct measurement,” ensuring privacy protection.

January 12, 2021 | 7 minutes read

Re-Identification-Manage Your Risks

Data privacy impacts everyone. It makes no difference if you are an individual, a small business, a large enterprise, or even a government agency. Many regulations must be followed when handling data. Protecting a person’s private or personally identifiable information or even trade secrets is a complex process. Loss of data can be too costly. As an individual, you could be impacted by identity theft. As a company, you could lose your customer base and go out of business. Even governments must comply; they too are not protected from lawsuits and penalties for loss of data.

January 10, 2021 | 6 minutes read

How Using All-in-One Apps Save Time and Money

In the past five years, the demand for all-in-one apps has soared, sparking a race among developers to create the ultimate tool. These apps, whether online or mobile, have become essential, handling everything from social activities to business.

January 08, 2021 | 9 minutes read

Personal Data Breaches & Your Smart Home

Stepping into 2021, home automation is becoming more common in our lives. It is the automated control over electronic devices in your home. These can be the small things that you may have come accustomed to or still seem relatively new and exciting. Alexa, can you turn on the lights? Alexa, can you lock the front door? The automatic control of electronic devices in your home is designed to make your life easier.

January 05, 2021 | 8 minutes read

Protecting National Security Off and On the Battlefield with Metadata

Metadata, or data about data, has been in existence for hundreds of years. When ancient scholars placed tags with necessary details of the contents on the attached scrolls to organize the library, they created a metadata type. The tag contained data, such as author, date published, content description – all details that described the scroll and its contents.

January 04, 2021 | 8 minutes read

What is the Meaning of Data Privacy?

In 2020, many legislative changes are happening to privacy laws on a global scale. Some older individuals might remember what ‘privacy’ really means. Younger generations have not known privacy. In just a few short generations, privacy has become an invaluable commodity. As a commodity, this means that your privacy is also for sale. Corporations, government, law enforcement, even private citizens can sell your personal information.

December 31, 2020 | 7 minutes read

Using Differential Privacy to Conceal Data

Today’s technology leaves data trails that can be exploited. Methods like redaction, anonymization, and differential privacy protect personal information. Differential privacy adds noise to data to prevent re-identification, ensuring privacy.

December 30, 2020 | 7 minutes read

Protecting Against Re-Identification, New Techniques

One method many companies use to store data with less risk is by using data anonymization. Data anonymization is similar to redaction. It is a type of data sanitization. With the intent of privacy protection, it is a term used to remove PII from stored data. This is done so that the individuals’ data is now ‘anonymous.’

December 29, 2020 | 7 minutes read

Phenotyping and Privacy

Digital Phenotyping is an emerging science described by Jukka-Pekka Onnela as “moment-by-moment quantification of individual human traits using data from personal digital devices.” It combines multiple disciplines to analyze data from personal tech.

December 25, 2020 | 8 minutes read

The Impact of Redaction on Our Everyday Lives

Redaction involves removing parts of a document, often with black rectangles, to protect identity, privacy, investigations, or national security. Some information legally cannot be released.