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Hiding sensitive data in a sea of noise might have more value than encryption in some use cases. Here are the most likely differential privacy applications and their trade-offs. In the past, the ...

Traditionally, companies have relied upon data masking, sometimes called de-identification, to protect data privacy. The basic idea is to remove all personally identifiable information (PII) from each ...

For the past year, Apple has touted a mathematical tool that it describes as a solution to a paradoxical problem: mining user data while simultaneously protecting user privacy. That secret weapon is ...

Lecturer in Cyber Security, Faculty of Science, Engineering & Built Environment, Deakin University It’s no secret that big tech companies like Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon are increasingly ...

Apple is stepping up its artificial intelligence efforts in a bid to keep pace with rivals who have been driving full-throttle down a machine learning-powered AI superhighway, thanks to their liberal ...

Apple, like practically every mega-corporation, wants to know as much as possible about its customers. But it's also marketed itself as Silicon Valley's privacy champion, one that---unlike so many of ...

— The U.S. Census Bureau is required by law to protect the confidentiality of census respondents. — The bureau is using a new method called “differential privacy” as part of the 2020 census to fuzz up ...