Re-identification is just too damned easy sometimes – and if your state is selling your “de-identified” health information, don’t be reassured – be worried. Here’s the abstract of a study by Latanya Sweeney: Alice goes to the hospital in the United States. Her doctor and health insurance company know the details ― and often, so…
Month: September 2015
European Parliament member presses to change spyware export rules
Joe Uchill reports: …. Both the US and EU are members of the 41-nation Wassenaar Arrangement, an arms trade pact updated in 2013 to include Internet monitoring technologies and so-called “intrusion software.” In 2014, well before the planned US implementation inflamed security pros and digital rights activists, the EU passed restrictions on those exports, leaving…
Are datasets truly anonymized? Two well-suited researchers are going to find out
Erika Morphy reports: With little fanfare or formality, Adam Smith, associate professor of computer science and engineering in Penn State’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Vitaly Shmatikov, a professor at Cornell University, are going to try to tackle a looming issue that will, if it is not addressed, have consequences for just about anyone who has every used…
EU-U.S. Safe Harbor: Judgment in the Schrems Case Scheduled For October 6
Monika Kuschewsky of Covington & Burling notes: The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in Luxembourg will render its judgment in the Schrems case (C-362/14 Maximilian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner) on October 6, at 9:30 am CET (see here). For details on the case and its potential implications for the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor, see our earlier…