The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulates the use of personal data collected from European data subjects, including activities of non-European companies that target or process ...

Before implementing a project of any kind, we ask which factors we should keep in mind to ensure project success. To be clear, the question isn't what we should do; I'm pretty sure everyone's got a ...

Public, private and government organizations are now, more than ever, concerned about how to implement data privacy, given that many countries have begun regulating by creating national standards and ...

De-identification of data refers to the process used to prevent personal identifiers—both direct and indirect—from being connected with information. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), ...

The era of “big data” has brought with it an incredible wealth of massive new datasets cataloging global society. Making possible this deluge of publicly accessible data is the concept of ...

Jeff Jonas, the chief scientist and distinguished engineer at IBM’s entity analytic solutions group, has developed a means of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains. This ...

Lots of websites and apps like to claim your data is "anonymized" in an effort to protect your privacy. But according to the FTC, many of these claims are often misleading. The FTC today warned the ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of ...

Collecting network traffic traces from deployed networks is one of the basic steps in understanding communication networks. These traces may be used for network management, traffic engineering, packet ...