Tag: reidentification
  • Nov 19, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

Canada unveils its new privacy legislation – with even bigger fines than the GDPR

As this blog has frequently noted, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) plays a crucial role in the privacy world. It not only creates protections for privacy online in the EU, it also provides a role model for other countries looking to implement privacy laws of their own. It shows that this complex area … Continue reading “Canada unveils its new privacy legislation – with even bigger fines than the GDPR”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: September 4, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of September 4th, 2020 Mozilla study reaffirms that internet history can be used for “reidentification” The sites we visit on the internet can form a unique fingerprint which can be used to track us on the web. A new research paper from Mozilla builds on a 2012 paper which … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: September 4, 2020”

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  • Aug 31, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Mozilla study reaffirms that internet history can be used for “reidentification”

A recent research paper has reaffirmed that our internet history can be reliably used to identify us. The research was conducted by Sarah Bird, Ilana Segall, and Martin Lopatka from Mozilla and is titled: Replication: Why We Still Can’t Browse in Peace:On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of Web Browsing Histories. The paper was released at … Continue reading “Mozilla study reaffirms that internet history can be used for “reidentification””

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