Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy

Monday, September 30th, 2019

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“In iOS 12 Apple is also introducing anti-fingerprinting technology in Safari. Fingerprinting is a tracking technology advertisers and data firms use to identify your movements online. They do this by recording characteristics about the device you are using–such as hard drive size, screen resolution, fonts, installed, and more–and then recording a log of that device’s movements. Though fingerprinting doesn’t give the firms access to your name, they know what the owner of a specific device does online and can build a profile around those actions. Well, again, until Apple shut that down with iOS 12 by stripping the unique characteristics of your device away from advertisers’ tracking software. These same benefits are also found in Apple’s latest MacOS Mojave, by the way.”
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Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy
https://www.fastcompany.com/90236195/forget-the-new-iphones-apples-best-product-is-now-privacy

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DNA methylation-based forensic age prediction using artificial neural networks and next generation sequencing

Monday, September 30th, 2019

DNA methylation-based forensic age prediction using artificial neural networks and next generation sequencing
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5392537/

GDPR vs. Existing Frameworks: Overlaps, Differences, and Filling the Gaps – Threat Stack

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019

https://www.threatstack.com/blog/gdpr-vs-existing-frameworks-overlaps-differences-and-filling-the-gaps

NYTimes: N.Y.P.D. Detectives Gave a Boy, 12, a Soda. He Landed in a DNA Database.

Sunday, August 18th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/nyregion/nypd-dna-database.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

genopri’19 in Boston

Saturday, June 1st, 2019

https://www.genopri.org

6th International Workshop on
Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri’19)

October 21-22, 2019, Boston, USA

Co-located with GA4GH 7th Plenary Meeting, The Hynes Convention Center, Boston, USA October 21-23, 2019

Let People Share DNA With a Click

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

one end of the spectrum on open DNA

Let People Share DNA With a Click
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-22/the-nih-should-become-the-facebook-of-genome-data

Explore the NIST Privacy Engineering Collaboration Space

Monday, March 11th, 2019

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the launch of the NIST Privacy Engineering Collaboration Space! The collaboration space is an online venue open to the public where practitioners can discover, share, discuss, and improve upon open source tools, solutions, and processes that support privacy
engineering and risk management. We have launched the space with a focus on de-identification and privacy risk management tools and use cases, gathered via GitHub for collaboration purposes.
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https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/privacy-engineering/collaboration-space

This Person Does Not Exist

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

FamilyTreeDNA Admits to Sharing Genetic Data With F.B.I.

Saturday, February 9th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/family-tree-dna-fbi.html

bioarxiv paper on Golden State Killer

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/531384v1.abstract