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NHS patients' health data to be anonymised and shared

...last year, was launched on Monday and paves the way for the anonymisation and reuse of patient data."Our electronic care records [are] becoming a... Read more

21 May, 2012 by Jo Best

Data Protection Act loophole risks sensitive data

...a month was exported to the US five years ago with "sham anonymisation" applied to the data, employing a process that turns each individual telephone... Read more

24 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Anonymity loophole puts UK data at risk

...a month was exported to the US five years ago with "sham anonymisation" applied to the data - employing a process that turns each individual telephone... Read more

23 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

EU proposes airline passenger data law

The European Commission wants to harmonise the way airlines hand over passengers' personal information to member states on flights in and out of the EU Read more

3 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner
JonDo 00.13.006

JonDo 00.13.006

...users to stay anonymous on the internet by giving access to strong anonymisation systems. It hides the users IP address from website operators, network admins... Read more

14 January, 2011
Scalable Mining of Common Routes in Mobile Communication Network Traffic Data

Scalable Mining of Common Routes in Mobile Communication Network Traffic Data

...has the dual purpose of enabling efficient coarse-graining as well as anonymisation by mapping individual sequences onto common routes. The approach is to represent... Read more

27 February, 2012

Tor anonymisation service hacked

The Tor browsing anonymisation service has urged users to upgrade their software after attackers broke into... Read more

25 January, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Chrome bug undermines web anonymisation

Google's browser has a design error that keeps anonymisation services such as Tor from working properly, according to researchers Read more

15 December, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

Google asks Viacom to respect YouTube user privacy

The search giant has urged Viacom to allow the anonymisation of YouTube user data that must be handed over following a US... Read more

4 July, 2008 by Greg Sandoval

Jonas and the identity kit

...resolution technology in other areas? The Las Vegas work was before our anonymisation work. The anonymisation is now called "relationship resolution." That class of technology... Read more

29 November, 2005 by Martin LaMonica
JonDo 00.12.005

JonDo 00.12.005

...users to stay anonymous on the internet by giving access to strong anonymisation systems. It hides the users IP address from website operators, network admins... Read more

5 April, 2010

SpinVox hits back at data-protection criticism

...not only does this [in] real-time, but in total security through anonymisation, encryption and randomisation. Other speech systems do this in off-line mode... Read more

24 July, 2009 by David Meyer

Berners-Lee sketches out plan for gov't data

...all data should be made public, nor does it discuss issues with anonymisation of data," wrote Berners-Lee. "Systems where [personally identifiable information] is an... Read more

26 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner
FBI agent reveals details of cybercrime sting

FBI agent reveals details of cybercrime sting

FBI agent J Keith Mularski spent two years undercover, infiltrating the DarkMarket internet forum, which was notorious for identity fraud Read more

7 May, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Microsoft offers to cut search-data retention time

...move to a six-month timeframe while retaining our strong method of anonymisation," John Vassallo, Microsoft's vice president of EU affairs, said in a... Read more

9 December, 2008 by Tom Espiner

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