The proviso was that any data containing personal details—for example, immigration passenger movements—had to be anonymised prior to its release. The APF warns that anonymising these ...

A sample set of anonymised data can be reverse engineered using machine learning techniques to re-identify individuals, a paper by researchers from Imperial College London and the UCLouvain in Belgium ...

Open data represents an important opportunity to solve some of the social and economic challenges we face today, such as reducing energy consumption and pollution or optimising traffic. However, the ...

A recent ruling by the European General Court (EGC) could help companies to clear data for processing by third parties by giving clarity on when data is anonymised and when it is pseudonymised. With ...

The inclusion of certain clauses related to non-personal data sets in the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill carries a very high risk of re-identification and may lead to legal complications for ...

Current methods for anonymising data leave individuals at risk of being re-identified, according to new UCLouvain and Imperial research. Companies and governments downplay the risk of ...