When most of us think of how the concept of “data” has been skewered by the press, we’re probably thinking about an app’s location data tipping off our home address, or apps like Grindr tipping ...

From healthcare to advertising, 'anonymizing' data allows those who collect it to sidestep privacy laws such as GDPR or the US’s California Consumer Privacy Act ...

Thanks to the near-complete saturation of the city with sensors and smartphones, we humans are now walking, talking data factories. Passing through a subway turnstile, sending a text, even just ...

Anonymized data sets are a joke. And, as a newly published study shows, the joke just so happens to be on you. From your credit card purchases to your medical records to your online browsing history, ...

Providing third-parties with data is a necessary cost of living in the 21st century. Whether it’s securing auto insurance, undergoing a routine examination at the dentist, or chatting up friends and ...

In “Imagine What We Could Cure” (op-ed, Nov. 26), J.J. Plecs and John H. Cochrane argue that anonymized medical data will bring great benefits to society. Perhaps the authors should consult security ...

In what appears to be a first, a public figure has been ousted after de-anonymized mobile phone location data was publicly reported, revealing sensitive and previously private details about his life.

Dropbox has denied claims that researchers obtained non-anonymized data from users of the cloud file storage service. A study by Northwestern University researchers posted Friday, and co-bylined with ...