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Diluting data profiles with obfuscation, a hot topic at HOPE X hacker conference

Posted on July 18, 2014 by pogowasright.org

Adam Greenberg reports:

People spend a lot of time concerned about getting their information off the internet and out of the hands of organizations that collect it, but the concept of obfuscation – injecting false, misleading and ambiguous data – can be an equally effective privacy tactic.

At hacker conference HOPE X, which kicked off Friday morning, the subject of obfuscation was a hot topic spoken about by Daniel Howe, a critical technologist who focuses on networked systems for image, sound and text, and on the social and political implications of computational technologies.

Read more on SC Magazine.

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