The Already Big Thing on the Internet: Spying on Users
April 5th, 2008
In 1993, the dawn of the Internet age, the liberating anonymity of the online world was captured in a well-known New Yorker cartoon. One...
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National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft
March 27th, 2008
The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases...
Beware of Prescription Drug & Medical Information Databases
March 25th, 2008
The drumbeat for internet-accessible medical records is growing louder, as are calls in Georgia and other states for prescription-monitoring programs mandated by law. If...
Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy
December 10th, 2007
Will privacy sell? Ask.com is betting it will. The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to...
AOL, Netflix and the end of open access to research data
November 30th, 2007
The authors of the Netflix de-anonymization study contacted me to point out that they originally published a draft of their results a mere two...
Robust De-anonymization of Large Datasets-(How to Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset)
November 22nd, 2007
We present a new class of statistical de-anonymization attacks against high-dimensional micro-data, such as individual preferences, recommendations, transaction records and so on. Our techniques...
Family doctors to shun national database of patients’ records
November 20th, 2007
Nearly two-thirds of family doctors are poised to boycott the government’s scheme to put the medical records of 50 million NHS patients on a...
Your Health Data, Plugged In to the Web
October 5th, 2007
Microsoft launched a free, ad-supported online health portal called HealthVault yesterday that allows people to upload their medical records to the Web and share...
Google Wants to Track Your Medical History — And Your Genome
September 20th, 2007
In a recent review of 23 internet companies by a consumer watchdog group, Privacy International, Google was the only one to receive the lowest...
Google Storing User Data: Controlling Privacy and Relevancy
June 18th, 2007
There has been a bit of a dust-up in the world of online privacy following the release of a report that smacked Google for...