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 ...

As companies work with data, one of the big obstacles they face is making sure they are not exposing personally identifiable information (PII) or other sensitive data. It usually requires a ...

First Google, then Ask.com and now Microsoft have jumped onto the privacy protection train. Late yesterday, Microsoft announced that it was going to follow Google’s lead and anonymize search log data ...

Scary ‘surveillance society’ headlines that vilify artificial intelligence (AI) distract from this technology’s equally powerful ability to protect our personal data. Researchers are exploring how ...

Google is reversing a long-standing policy to retain all the data on its users indefinitely, and by the end of the year will begin removing identifying data from its search logs after 18 months to two ...

Yahoo will anonymize user data after only three months, the company announced today. That's three times faster than Google's nine-month retention policy. Microsoft remains old school with an 18-month ...

Google LLC will delete or anonymize millions of data points collected about users to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over Chrome’s Incognito mode. The plan was detailed in court documents made ...

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TrialAssure® – a leading, global software company focused on developing clinical trial transparency tools – announced today the full release of ANONYMIZE DS, the ...

If you were miffed about Britain's National Health Service (NHS) giving your sensitive data away to Google's DeepMind, how you respond to today's news is probably a crapshoot. The NHS has announced ...

Training data scraped from the web may have been OK for the first wave of large language models, but as competition increases, more and better data will be needed. In the past, we’ve improved large ...