Personally Identifiable Information

Oct 13 2018

Is Your DNA Sequence Safe? Removing PII Is Not Enough

24 Comments / News & Legislation / By Benjamin Krause

Despite promises from VA, our DNA sequences are no longer safe even if the agency removes your PII from health records used by private companies like Google. Over the past […]

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Apr 7 2018

Facebook Says It Stopped ‘Top Secret’ Plan To Mine Medical Records, Hashing To De-Anonymize Data

50 Comments / News & Legislation / By Benjamin Krause

Facebook reportedly shelved one of its “top secret” projects led by Dr. Freddy Abnousi, to correlate anonymized medical records with that of its user base using hashing to correlate the

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