BoingBoing
SEARCH STORE
  • SEARCH
  • STORE
  • Blog : The posts
  • Forums : Read the rules
  • Store : Wonderful Products (Contact Support)
  • Newsletter : Daily wonderful things
  • About Us : Writers and staff
  • Contact Us : Get satisfaction
  • Advertise : Thank you for reading
  • Privacy Policy : The data you generate
  • TOS : What you agree to
  • Thumbnails : Youtube Thumbnail generator
  • privacy New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm Cory Doctorow
  • Science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow
  • security The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow
  • crypto You can unscramble the hashes of humanity's 5 billion email addresses in ten milliseconds for $0.0069 Cory Doctorow
  • Business An incredibly important paper on whether data can ever be "anonymized" and how we should handle release of large data-sets Cory Doctorow
  • twitter Fitness app releases data-set that reveals the location of sensitive military bases, patrol routes, aircrew flightpaths, and individual soldiers' jogging routes Cory Doctorow
  • surveillance A comprehensive guide to corporate online surveillance in everyday life Cory Doctorow
  • facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow
  • web theory The Australian health authority believed it had "anonymised" a data-set of patient histories, but academics were easily able to unscramble it Cory Doctorow
  • surveillance Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative Cory Doctorow

Read the rules you agree to by using this website in our Terms of Service.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Boing Boing uses cookies and analytics trackers, and is supported by advertising, merchandise sales and affiliate links. Read about what we do with the data we gather in our Privacy Policy.

Who will be eaten first? Our forum rules are detailed in the Community Guidelines.

Boing Boing is published under a Creative Commons license except where otherwise noted.

    • Mark Frauenfelder
    • David Pescovitz
    • Rob Beschizza
    • Carla Sinclair
    Editors
    • Jason Weisberger
    Publisher
    • Ken Snider
    Sysadmin
    • About Us
    • Newsletter
    • Contact Us
    • Advertise
    • Forums
    • Shop
    • Shop Support