Canada’s privacy watchdog has called on the country’s health and life insurance industry not to ask applicants for access to existing genetic test results, “until such time as they can be shown to be demonstrably necessary and effective”. Read more on Out-Law.com.
Category: Misc
Diluting data profiles with obfuscation, a hot topic at HOPE X hacker conference
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…
No silver bullet: De-identification still doesn’t work
Arvind Narayanan and Edward W. Felten write: Paul Ohm’s 2009 article “Broken Promises of Privacy” spurred a debate in legal and policy circles on the appropriate response to computer science research on re-identification.1 In this debate, the empirical research has often been misunderstood or misrepresented. A new report by Ann Cavoukian and Daniel Castro is full of such…
CO: Drone Crashes In Brighton Man’s Backyard
CBS in Denver reports: A drone crashed into a Brighton man’s backyard and now the homeowner wants answers. George Ray said the drone had a GoPro camera mounted on it and was videotaping over his property located off Interstate 76 near 136th Ave. early this morning. Ray said he heard a strange sound outside his…