Tom McKay and Dhruv Mehrotra report: In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to…
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How differential privacy enhances Microsoft’s privacy and security tools: SmartNoise Early Adopter Acceleration Program Launched
John Kahan – VP, Chief Data Analytics Officer for Microsoft, writes: The invention of differential privacy was ahead of its time. The technology, pioneered by Microsoft researchers 15 years ago, makes it possible to extract useful insights from datasets, while safeguarding the privacy of the individuals included in the data. What was needed to realize…
More privacy news that you may have missed
Many of us get so busy with things during the holiday season, and with COVID-19 and the election lawsuits, it’s hard to keep up with all the privacy news. Thankfully, Joe Cadillic can help us keep up. Here are just a few links to a few news items that Joe compiled for the privacy-conscious: European…
Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user’s mailbox, founder says ‘this is absurd’
Here we go again? Will this be another LavaBit? Gareth Corfield reports: Tutanota has been served with a court order to backdoor its encrypted email service – a situation founder Matthias Pfau described to The Register as “absurd.” Our friends at Heise reported auf Deutsch that a court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the…