Study offers models for preserving the privacy of citizens while using their data to improve government services. India is on a path with dual — and potentially conflicting — goals related t... Read more
Microphones, from those in smartphones to hearing aids, are built specifically to hear the human voice—humans can’t hear at levels higher than 20 kHz, and microphones max out at around 24 kH... Read more
Action is needed to monitor and control the emerging Internet of Toys, concludes a new JRC report. Privacy and security are highlighted as main areas of concern. Large numbers of connected t... Read more
Software helps users avoid accidentally leaking sensitive info on camera Camera-equipped smartphones, laptops and other devices make it possible to share ideas and images with anyone, anywhe... Read more
While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with another tech... Read more
New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees. Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits fro... Read more
New tools allow researchers to share and study sensitive data safely by applying ‘differential privacy’ The promise of big data lies in researchers’ ability to mine massive... Read more
Last week, the heads of two of America’s biggest companies said almost the same thing about what personalized technology would mean to the future of business. First, Timothy D. Cook, the chi... Read more
For the powerful quantum computers that will be developed in the future, cracking online bank account details and credit cards number will be a cinch. But a team of cryptographers which incl... Read more
FREQUENT visitors to the Hustler Club, a gentlemen’s entertainment venue in New York, could not have known that they would become part of a debate about anonymity in the era of “big data”. B... Read more
New technology allows irises to be scanned from 40 feet away. Is this a wonder weapon against crime and terrorism or a way for governments to invade our privacy and track our movements? Imag... Read more
One man’s crusade against high-tech voyeurism may enlist the masses with an affordable, effective device New Zealand-born, Berlin-based super-hacker Julian Oliver wants to protect your priva... Read more