Paul Ohm recently put out an article where he makes the dramatic claim that de-identification has failed (see http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006). I have heard that argument before and the argument’s primary weakness is amplified in this article – therefore I feel compelled to comment. Paul Ohm’s argument about the failure of anonymization is based on evidence that…
Category: Misc
FTC hires privacy blogger
In yet another sign that the Federal Trade Commission is serious about examining online privacy, Christopher Soghoian said today that he’s accepted a job as technical consultant to the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.Soghoian, currently with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is among the most influential researchers…
Fighting biological identity theft (updated)
Fascinating stuff: Elon Ganor is now working in the field of biotechnology with a new Israeli startup, Nucleix, a firm that is devoted to foiling biological identity theft. Nucleix’s technology is designed to answer a new problem that has arisen where medicine and law meet: biological identity theft. That refers to the ability to build,…
Anonymization FAIL! Privacy Law FAIL!
Paul Ohm writes that he has uploaded his latest draft article entitled, “Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization” to SSRN, where you can download a free copy of the article. The Abstract: Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for…