Privacy Enhancing Technologies

This is another article in my series on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Let’s talk about how we can using some clever techniques to assert the truth of a statement without divulging personal data that proves the assertion. What problem are we solving? This is the question we need to always ask first. And there are several […]

Okay, it’s time for another installment in my Privacy Enhancing Technologies series. Let’s talk about how we can preserve individual privacy in a vast set of data using a mathematical technique called Differential Privacy. A Face in the Crowd Let’s say you have a big stack of data about people. The US census data is

This is part of a series of articles on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) – clever techniques to help protect our data, at rest and in motion. While onion routing isn’t new, it’s a powerful and little-understood tool for protecting your identity on the web. A Little Background First Onion routing is a technique for masking

We think of the internet as modern technology, but the World Wide Web is about 35 years old now. The underlying “internetworked” system is another decade or two older than that, depending on how you define a network. When this technology was first deployed, they weren’t really worried about security and privacy. We’ve had to