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Top Five Data Privacy Issues that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Startups Need to Know
In this special guest feature, Joseph E. Mutschelknaus, a director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group, addresses some of the…
Continue Reading10 Steps for Tackling Data Privacy and Security Laws in 2020
By Anas Baig, Product Marketing Lead at SECURITI. ai. Data privacy is real, and it is here. Organizations are already…
Continue ReadingPrivacy-preserving AI – Why do we need it?
By Upendra Singh, Senior Principal Architect – Data Sciences, DX, at Epsilon. In todays digitized world, data privacy is an…
Continue ReadingThinking about Privacy in the Fight Against COVID-19
Privacy is not an absolute right. It is balanced against other rights and public goods, and rightly so. While COVID-19…
Continue ReadingThree composition theorems for differential privacy
This is a brief post, bringing together three composition theorems for differential privacy. The composition of an ε1-differentially private algorithm…
Continue ReadingWhy HIPAA matters even if you’re not a “covered entity”
The HIPAA privacy rule only applies to “covered entities. ” This generally means insurance plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and medical…
Continue ReadingTop privacy-related posts of 2019
These have been the most popular privacy-related posts here this year. Hashing PII does not protect privacy Rare and strange…
Continue ReadingWhat is a privacy budget?
The idea behind differential privacy is that it doesn’t make much difference whether your data is in a data set…
Continue ReadingShort video introducing differential privacy
Here is a 12-minute video from Minute Physics, in collaboration with the US Census Bureau, giving an overview of differential…
Continue ReadingCould Rogue AI Services Become the New Tool for Harvesting Data and Distributing Malware?
In this special guest feature, Ramesh Mahalingam, CEO of Vizru Inc. , discusses how organizations need to adopt a cohesive…
Continue ReadingAI Differential Privacy and Federated Learning
AI Differential Privacy and Federated LearningUse of Artificial Intelligence on users sensitive data has recently raised numerous concerns. Differential Privacy…
Continue ReadingUnderstanding Differential Privacy
The idea behind PATE is applying a DP aggregation (Report Noisy Max algorithm) on outputs of sensitive models, called “teachers”…
Continue ReadingNew Io-Tahoe White Paper Designed to Help Prepare for CCPA
There’s no denying it. Big data, and the resulting applications and technology have not only made consumers’ lives easier, but…
Continue ReadingGDPR is in place; CCPA is coming. Are you ready?
The one-year anniversary of the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has recently passed. Regardless of where you…
Continue ReadingProtecting privacy while keeping detailed date information
A common attempt to protect privacy is to truncate dates to just the year. For example, the Safe Harbor provision…
Continue ReadingThe Future of AI in the Face of Data Famine
The Future of AI in the Face of Data FamineMichael RenzBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJun 11Photo by Mathew MacQuarrie on UnsplashThe field of artificial intelligence research…
Continue ReadingInsurtech Data & Privacy in 2019
For starters, we need to redefine our expectations around privacy, by advocating for digital transparency. Some of the protection starts…
Continue Reading3 Big Problems with Big Data and How to Solve Them
According to Yael Eisenstat, ex-head of Facebook elections integrity operations, cognitive bias training is the key along with time, better…
Continue ReadingHardcoding Trust: One Year of Sad Privacy Responses From Your Favorite AI
That’s a bit of a fortune cookie response, but okay. It’s certainly better than “Yes!”Here, though, Google at least attempts…
Continue ReadingScaling up differential privacy: lessons from the US Census
The paper Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy describes some of the difficulties the US Census Bureau has run into while…
Continue ReadingUS Census Bureau embraces differential privacy
The US Census Bureau is convinced that traditional methods of statistical disclosure limitation have not done enough to protect privacy.…
Continue ReadingPrivacy of Wearable and Sensors Data (or, the Lack Thereof?)
Privacy of Wearable and Sensors Data (or, the Lack Thereof?)Luca FoschiniBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingFeb 4Can AI expose sensitive health information of large swaths…
Continue Reading“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 1/28/2019
Let’s start with some new funding news … CrediFi, a leading source for data and analytics for commercial real estate…
Continue ReadingData Privacy and Anonymization Techniques
Simple Techniques to Anonymize Data A simple approach to maintaining personal data privacy when using data for predictive modeling or…
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