Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

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…

Google is now publishing coronavirus mobility reports, feeding off users’ location history

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…

Privacy researchers devise a noise-exploitation attack that defeats dynamic anonymity

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…

Researchers spotlight the lie of ‘anonymous’ data