Access control is a keystone in conventional approaches to protecting personal information. Lately, however, there is a great deal of uncertainty about whether big data repositories such as “data lakes” do in fact contain personal information, and whether access control is possible in these unstructured …
Read MorePrivacy Ground Rules for Big Data
Corporate big data initiatives are collecting massive volumes of personal data, largely for marketing purposes. There is a great deal of confusion about how these practices fit with privacy regulations. Are there any clear ground rules for big data privacy? The metadata problem We live …
Read MoreWhy Invest in Privacy?
For companies and public organizations running on limited budgets, it can be difficult to see the benefits of investing in privacy. In our experience, executives and boards do not usually ask how privacy could help them; they ask what similar organizations are doing, and what …
Read MoreWhat is Privacy in Design?
Today, corporations and institutions are collecting, storing, using, and sharing data in unprecedented volumes, for a variety of purposes. Much of this data is personal data – records of our interactions with retailers, venues, public institutions, websites, and social media. The basic principle of Privacy …
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