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 ...

Valve is trialing a Steam feature that predicts game framerates based on anonymized performance data from players with similar hardware. Initially focused on SteamOS devices like the Steam Deck, the ...

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 ...

Merely existing in the modern world means giving up a wealth of your information to countless institutions and services. While many of the places make promises to keep your identifiable data as secure ...

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, ...

Your medical information, credit card purchases, rewards cards, online browsing history — it is all collected and sold with the promise that it is anonymized. In theory, that means that the data ...

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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission said it intends to crack down on companies that lie about anonymizing data collected from users. The agency said on Monday that it intends to take additional action to ...

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 ...