Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye
Media & Entertainment
Google is now publishing coronavirus mobility reports, feeding off users’ location history
6:19 am PDT • April 3, 2020
Google is giving the world a clearer glimpse of exactly how much it knows about people everywhere — using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to repackage its persistent tracking…
Privacy
Privacy researchers devise a noise-exploitation attack that defeats dynamic anonymity
6:00 am PDT • August 17, 2019
Privacy researchers in Europe believe they have the first proof that a long-theorised vulnerability in systems designed to protect privacy by aggregating and adding noise to data to mask individual…
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…