A hash is kinda trash. Or, more precisely, not only will hashing data not anonymize it, but regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, consider hashed identifiers to be personal information.

Researchers from Rice University and Duke University are using the tools of statistics and data science in collaboration with Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) to accurately and efficiently ...

Researchers are using statistics and data science tools to accurately and efficiently estimate the number of identified victims killed in the Syrian civil war. In a new paper, which will appear in the ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has stated that hashed IDs, which have been widely adopted as a privacy-safe alternative to third-party cookies, aren't anonymous after all. "Companies often claim ...

Across industries, a practice long treated as “privacy-safe” is coming under renewed scrutiny: the widespread sharing of hashed customer identifiers. Once assumed to protect personal data, hashing is ...

Hashing refers to the process of using an algorithm to transform data of any size into a unique fixed sized output (e.g., combination of numbers). To put it in layman’s term, some piece of information ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Data centers must be purpose-built to handle current and future workloads - evolving rapidly and driven by high volumes of end users, application types, cluster nodes, and overall data movement in the ...

You can’t un-ring a bell, but you might be able to un-hash an email, depending on whom you ask. In order for marketers to safely use hashes for targeted advertising, they must stay abreast of the ...