Category Archives: Big Data
The strengths and weaknesses of Data Privacy in the Age of Big Data
This is the abstract of a current privacy conference proposal. Synopsis Many Big Data and...
How are we to defend anonymity?
If anonymity is important, what is the legal basis for defending it? I find that...
Feb
The Snapchat data breach
Yesterday it was reported by The Verge that anonymous hackers have accessed Snapchat’s user database...
Are we ready to properly debate surveillance and privacy?
The cover of Newsweek magazine on 27 July 1970 featured an innocent couple being menaced...
Measuring anonymity
As we head towards 2014, de-identification of personal data sets is going to be a...
What’s really happening to privacy?
This article was first published as Wilson, S. (2013). What happened to privacy?”. Issues, 104,...
Big Data? Big Privacy!
I was invited to give a speech to launch Australian Privacy Awareness Week #2013PAW on...
The beginning of privacy!
The headlines proclaim that the newfound ability to re-identify anonymous DNA donors means The End...
Letter to Science: Re-identification of DNA may need ethics approval
Introduction I had a letter published in Science magazine about the recently publicised re-identification of...
Classic Facebook stalking horse
Dec 19, 2012 Yesterday Instagram made its first move towards delivering the real value in...