privacy New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm Cory Doctorow
security The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow
crypto You can unscramble the hashes of humanity's 5 billion email addresses in ten milliseconds for $0.0069 Cory Doctorow
Business An incredibly important paper on whether data can ever be "anonymized" and how we should handle release of large data-sets Cory Doctorow
twitter Fitness app releases data-set that reveals the location of sensitive military bases, patrol routes, aircrew flightpaths, and individual soldiers' jogging routes Cory Doctorow
Business Your early darknet drug buys are preserved forever in the blockchain, waiting to be connected to your real identity Cory Doctorow
security Researchers think that adversarial examples could help us maintain privacy from machine learning systems Cory Doctorow
china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow
web theory The Australian health authority believed it had "anonymised" a data-set of patient histories, but academics were easily able to unscramble it Cory Doctorow
privacy Study shows detailed, compromising inferences can be readily made with metadata Cory Doctorow
