The restrictions also don't apply if your data has been "anonymized"—despite the fact that numerous studies have shown that anonymized data isn't really all that anonymous.
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"We showed that an 'anonymized' dataset from one place can easily be linked to a non-anonymized dataset from somewhere else via a column that appears in both datasets," Metropolitansky said.
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The process is a bit like boiling, the ocean and to complicate matters even further, it involves anonymized data and non-anonymized data about customers being stored in the same database.
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A chance at real impact — anonymized and at your availability.
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The report doesn't mention if your data will be anonymized.
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Public data that's been anonymized is Tay's primary data source.
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Apple never takes possession of the data, anonymized or otherwise.
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It uses anonymized medical databases to create advanced diagnosis tools.
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"We're destroying this data and keeping it anonymized," he told me.
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However, the same unique anonymized email address used to register smartinnotech.
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Using anonymized data, Axios shares ad performance data back to advertisers.
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Three alliances have been formed – with 0003,000 anonymized voter profiles shared.
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We anonymized it so we couldn't figure out who was who.
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Though still tokens of intellectual yearning, they've now been completely anonymized.
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The extension does collect anonymized data attached to a unique identifier.
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Selling anonymized data is not uncommon for free services like Unroll.
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I think they anonymized it without knowing what it would do.
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In some cases, this data is not even in anonymized formats.
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It's purchased in bulk and often "anonymized," or stripped of identifying info—although, as a recent New York Times report illustrated, it's trivially easy to connect anonymized bulk location data back to individual cell phone users.
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Today, Mapbox is already collecting anonymized (and ONLY anonymized, says Gundersen) aggregated telemetry data from 200 million users, by way of apps that are using the Mapbox SDK, which include apps from Airbnb, Instacart, Snap, and MasterCard.
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The data came from QResearch, a large database of anonymized health records.
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The anonymized dataset is available for academic researchers to use via FamiLinx.
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The entire concept of "anonymized data" has come under scrutiny as well.
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Buttar, explained that supposedly anonymized data can often be re-identified later.
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The data Google gives is anonymized, with accounts sorted by numerical identifiers.
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Policymakers responded by restricting access to pools of anonymized biomedical genetic data.
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Zeotap then gives anonymized data back to brands for marketing and analytics.
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The data is aggregate and anonymized, and there is an opt-out.
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Both governments make public the suspected linkages of cases, anonymized by numbers.
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Page views will be measured, but anonymized and only in the aggregate.
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On the privacy front, Lyft says the feature uses anonymized, aggregated data.
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Computer scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that poorly 'anonymized' data can be reidentified.
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For many companies, the path to monetization is anonymized, aggregated user data.
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That said, it is possible to identify a specific person even from such "anonymized" data points, which is why many privacy advocates prefer using the term "de-identified" data rather than "anonymized," reasoning that nothing is ever truly anonymous.
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Any data Apple sees is anonymized and grouped with data from other users.
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Over time, Human started using this anonymized data to learn more about cities.
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That data is anonymized and aggregated with other shoppers' data before being sold.
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The stock images are crudely photoshopped to become puppets, mouthing the anonymized stories.
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We have an anonymized data set of check-ins with a time stamp.
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The data isn't tied to specific individuals, he adds, but is instead anonymized.
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The data being tapped into by this algorithm will also reportedly be anonymized.
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The current test is good enough for an anonymized population study, Zaaijer says.
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It is getting access to some non-anonymized patient data without patients' knowledge.
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They're anonymized, but they're not realistically someone else, like a deepfake might be.
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In his book, Roth argues that "data cannot be fully anonymized and remain useful" and provides the example of Netflix, whose anonymized subscriber records were in 2007 successfully linked to actual people by comparing Netflix's data with data from the IMDb.
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The plan had been to get hospitals to share anonymized medical information — such as health issues and age, but not name — and match it up with anonymized Facebook accounts that appeared to belong to those same people, according to the report.
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IP logs are deleted within 43 hours, though anonymized data is kept for longer.
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But will the data be anonymized and will metadata identifying the uploader be scrubbed?
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But there are many challenges to overcome as each decision needs to be anonymized.
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Its anonymized descendants such as ZCash have added value to the initial Bitcoin proposition.
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As usual with FTC complaints, these were anonymized before they were provided to Gizmodo.
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One area of data-sharing these best practices won't affect is anonymized medical research.
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The image is anonymized and put on the cloud for more detailed diagnostic tests.
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Researchers can then buy the anonymized data from Luna DNA, also using Luna Coin.
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That makes Telegraph an interesting option for posting short notes or anonymized content online.
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Are faces being harvested and "anonymized" for sale to trainers of computer vision systems?
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The data are anonymized using complicated methods, making a breach of privacy very unlikely.
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It will then send that snippet completely encrypted and anonymized from your particular HomePod.
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Major platforms, including Apple's Podcast Analytics, today offer granular and anonymized data, including listens.
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As the FTC blog post makes clear, this was no innocent, anonymized data collection.
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The digital trail often winds up in one of the internet's anonymized dead ends.
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Anonymized searches over time help Search understand your questions, even if you misspell them.
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We cannot relate to any specific users as the data is anonymized and aggregated.
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Second Measure analyzes billions of anonymized credit and debit card purchases from US consumers.
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As with its peers, Microsoft says that the data it does collect is anonymized.
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And then they have a forum on their app, and the forum is anonymized.
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In return, companies get anonymized data which they can use for better targeting consumers.
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Apple said it didn't need a report, as the data it collects was anonymized.
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Data are aggregated and anonymized, so advertisers wouldn't have access to an individual's information.
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The samples tech companies review are anonymized, so they don't include personally identifiable information.
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While those who sell it say the data is anonymized, this claim is dubious.
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Famously, Netflix's "anonymous" users were de-anonymized by researchers as long ago as 2006.
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These collected data are supposedly anonymized to the degree that third party advertisers will never know who you are specifically, but as John Gruber wrote, "wiped iPhones are supposed to be anonymized too, and Uber found at least one route around that."
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About a dozen of them raise privacy concerns beyond the guise of anonymized data-sharing.
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"We're working with partners on aggregate, anonymized data about what the trends are," he says.
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For nearly a year, the company faced criticism for selling anonymized user data to businesses.
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Departments of health in each state keep anonymized data on all pregnant women with Zika.
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Worry not; according to the inventors of WhatsAnalyzer, the data is anonymized immediately after receipt.
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It's anonymized, so the ability to get at specific activities that you do are eliminated.
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Collectively, anonymized data is aggregated and sent to Google to improve its products for everyone.
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Our data with our buy-in is actually significantly more valuable than it is anonymized.
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Any other internet-connect apps, like email clients or chat apps, will not be anonymized.
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Mira may also eventually make its collected data, once anonymized, available to researchers, as well.
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The salesperson was prolific across a variety of marketplaces, accessible only through anonymized internet clients.
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There's the near-euphoric rush of victory against anonymized human opponents somewhere else on Earth.
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It uses anonymized location data and searches to determine how busy a place currently is.
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The startup combines automated extraction with a team of human nurses to annotate anonymized records.
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The tree, which is available online, includes (anonymized) data on when and where everyone died.
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"The anonymized and aggregated data is used to indicate the popularity of information," it stated.
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Under the program, permit holders must submit anonymized data about each autonomous vehicle in operation.
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The contractors were checking whether Facebook's artificial intelligence correctly interpreted the messages, which were anonymized.
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The data is anonymized, so authorities are studying general population movement rather than tracking individuals.
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Investors are happy to have anonymized data, as they are looking for overall market trends.
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We anonymized and aggregated our usage data to provide the statistics in our Instagram Story.
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DHS suggested formation of an anonymized cyber incident data repository accompanied with advanced consequence analytics.
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The chart, by Rani Molla, visualizes data that Jumpshot collected from 100 million anonymized web devices.
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"And, thanks to this anonymized opt-in data, we have a lot of insight into that."
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The agency also said that it only accesses limited location data, and that data is anonymized.
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He added that there would be no privacy concerns as these internet addresses would be anonymized.
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In some cases, that includes allowing healthcare companies to sell anonymized medical data to pharmaceutical companies.
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The access to those users gives Mapbox anonymized telemetry data from an aggregated 200 million users.
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For researchers, Facebook could offer ways to export anonymized News Feed and activity data for study.
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Right now, Eero says that it gathers anonymized data like aggregate metrics to improve network performance.
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The comments illustrated here are anonymized, but are inspired by the 'hive coming for him...still.
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Airbnb initially resisted, but agreed to provide an anonymized version of the data a year later.
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Wove helps DTC companies share anonymized customer data with each other so they can target better.
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The NBA has asked operators to share anonymized betting data, Kaufman-Ross told The Action Network.
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DeepMind responded by stating all patient data was anonymized and delivered through an unnamed third party.
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Before its removal, OurPact said it collected "very limited but standard anonymized" data for crash reports.
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There's also some applications for broader medical research here, providing anonymized health data for laboratory purposes.
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The company relies on aggregated, anonymized location history data, just like it does for popular times.
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An anonymized ID. User A. Right, is consuming this media; would you like to reach him?
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Google offers schools and hospitals early access to its health algorithms in exchange for anonymized data.
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Volunteers receive a batch of messages from a centralized software that they send to anonymized numbers.
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That project came under fire after a whistleblower alleged the health records were not being anonymized.
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But while you're connected to the VPN, it'll still be anonymized by the VPN you're using.
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Apple emphasized privacy would be paramount for those who do, and that data would be anonymized.
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Bravely aggregates anonymized data from all the calls and reports major trends back to the companies.
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Another wrote to say he'd de-anonymized a man in a loud conversation on the train.
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But the President's lawyers were fuming that Trump was even mentioned by name while others were anonymized.
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For what it's worth, Tapad says that its Device Graph respects data privacy, working with anonymized data.
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On the Libra network, any user will be able to access that anonymized record of any transaction.
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With that project, the researcher did not publicly release her dataset, and only reported the anonymized findings.
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Credit card terms of service generally include clauses to allow anonymized collection, but legislation could change that.
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Tay was built by mining public data that's been anonymized, which is the bot's primary data source.
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Previous studies have shown that even within independent individual anonymized datasets, identifying users isn't all that difficult.
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It also allows sharing and selling of patient data if it has been "anonymized" (identifying details removed).
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Participants do indeed have to sign a form to allow for the selling of that anonymized data.
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Both Google and Mastercard say that the data is anonymized in order to protect personally identifiable information.
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Anonymized data, shared securely with well vetted academics, would likely bring us much closer to the truth.
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So the idea of allowing an anonymized online platform to sell their works to strangers was terrifying.
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Back in February, the city subpoenaed Airbnb for the non-anonymized data of more than 17,000 listings.
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This data, and all other data collected by the vehicles, needs to be anonymized, according to NHTSA.
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The company unveiled maps that used anonymized Facebook user data to help organizations respond to natural disasters.
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He knows from personal experience how sparse the existing guidelines are for working with anonymized genetic data.
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The company unveiled maps that use anonymized Facebook user data to help organizations respond to natural disasters.
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Anonymized and unvetted, the CPSC "does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy" of these anecdotal accounts.
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Online retail may seem like a more anonymized version of the brick and mortar stores of old.
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There were multiple individuals who were taunting students on this chat, and all were anonymized by pseudonyms.
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The ideal of the anonymized, number-only Swiss account still holds much sway over the public imagination.
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More recently, Transport for London began collecting anonymized behavior data using Wi-Fi in the city's subway.
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The data being sent to companies' servers is anonymized, tied to unique identifiers specific to users' devices.
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That includes the number of times listeners heard an ad, the ad's reach, and anonymized audience insight.
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Again, this information can be quickly de-anonymized and combined to form complex and revealing marketing profiles.
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Two respondents, Home Depot and Yelp, said they used anonymized data from Jumpshot, according to the article.
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Their names could have been anonymized and put on an advertiser's list that was uploaded to Facebook.
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But there's a long list of studies that have repeatedly showcased that anonymized data isn't actually anonymous.
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Google would not comment to CNBC on talks with the White House on using anonymized location data.
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"The challenge with this data is that we don't believe it can be anonymized," said Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, head of the computational privacy group at Imperial College London, whose research found that almost all people could be personally identified from just four pieces of anonymized mobile phone data.
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That might be because Apple insists that all Siri commands are anonymized, encrypted, and stored on the device.
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Of course, anonymized chat could also lead to abuse, which is where the Safety Center comes into play.
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Google also saves and reviews anonymized audio snippets captured by Google Home or Assistant, and distorts the audio.
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Crowley yesterday announced an Austin-specific demo of an experimental anonymized location-tracking feature for Foursquare called hypertrending.
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The new dataset measures a whopping 13.5 TB (uncompressed) in size, and consists of anonymized user interaction data.
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The FTC has anonymized the complaints so we're unable to reach out to the people making the allegations.
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It's sending signals out to beacons so that Disney can collect (somehow anonymized) data about its parks' guests.
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As a result, companies are going to great lengths to acquire data (which resides in an anonymized format).
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Update August 31st, 1:16AM ET: Added Mastercard statement and updated second paragraph with mention of anonymized data.
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And right now, when it's being resold, it's being resold as anonymized data the majority of the time.
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Me's anonymized customer data to Uber—has invented a whole new level of terrible, borderline sociopathic non-apology.
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"In reality, these records were not sufficiently anonymized and put the patients' privacy at grave risk," it says.
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For the new study, the researchers used anonymized data on about 12 million Facebook users living in California.
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Trim says it may share anonymized, aggregated data with business partners who want to advertise to specific demographics.
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As part of the agreement, the pharmaceutical giant will get access to anonymized data from 23andMe's DNA kits.
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In another, it looked at how anonymized data was shared internally and with algorithmic trading clients, ITG said.
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During the internal preview period, the exercise will use more than half-a-million anonymized digital tile images.
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The Reuters report does not specify how or even if the posts being reviewed and labeled are anonymized.
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FirstRound portfolio companies can ask each other questions in private and reference anonymized compensation, benefits and vendor data.
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However, the company said it will use anonymized data taken from Tesla's global fleet to help determine rates.
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Anonymized data means that personally identifying information such as a person's name and birth date has been removed.
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Privacy activists worry that anonymized data and aggregated data can still be pieced back together to identify individuals.
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Advertisers can use anonymized geolocation data from cellphones to target people when they visit, say, a McDonald's location.
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Facebook asked hospitals for anonymized data about their patients for a proposed research project, CNBC reported on Thursday.
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Usually, Google determines where traffic jams are by pulling anonymized location data from phones running the Maps app.
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But they do give some anonymized details about the Pennsylvania victims that tied the case to that jurisdiction.
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The app's creator says it doesn't sell your health data, though it occasionally shares anonymized data with researchers.
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Still, two industry executives expressed doubts over how Brussels would ensure the data remained anonymized and securely protected.
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That anonymized data will then help cities plan for things like where to put the newest bike lanes.
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The post also includes anonymized comments from the poll, shared with permission, such as:Please, please please change the name.
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When any gallery visitor connects to that router, it redirects their data over the encrypted and anonymized Tor network.
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Because web browser log data is anonymized, it was hard to study how the content influenced individual people's behavior.
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In an unprecedented move, Facebook has agreed to provide anonymized data about how stories are shared across its platform.
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This information was then combined with the customer's industry and anonymized to remove any identifying and brand-specific information.
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Despite many of these datasets containing "anonymized" data, the students say that identifying actual users wasn't all that difficult.
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Now, GSK alone will be able to access what Wojcicki described today as aggregated and wholly anonymized customer information.
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It will be anonymized, we're assured, and only a small percentage of data will be made available to others.
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The FTC also wants to know to what extent the data collected is anonymized and protected from internal access.
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Academia produced a public spreadsheet, but one that was curated with all names — including those of accused perpetrators — anonymized.
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It's all there: their passions, their hobbies, their ideological leanings, their love of terrible haircuts and sublime anonymized cringe.
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Competitor 23andMe makes money, in part, by selling anonymized aggregated genetic information gathered from its customers to third parties.
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But Elephant In The Valley didn't just gather numbers — it also shares the (anonymized) stories these women have experienced.
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This type of post and messaging continued through the end of January on various platforms, always anonymized via Tor.
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The promise being it's privacy (and GDPR) 'safe' because it's designed to mask individual identities by returning anonymized results.
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Or, to put it another way, a well designed attack can accurately infer personal data from fuzzy ('anonymized') responses.
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It's worth nothing that Fabric's privacy policy does allow the company to share aggregated, anonymized data with third parties.
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Instead, the massive, anonymized, data set enables enterprises to gain a higher level view into core competencies across organizations.
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DeepMind said that all patient records being used in the new head and neck image study will be anonymized.
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They wanted anonymized medical data to essentially deanonymize by hashing against profile data, but patient consent didn't come up??
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"The health protection agencies could use it to populate anonymized map data," which might help reduce transmission, Crowcroft says.
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The company told BuzzFeed News it only collects anonymized usage and analytics data, which is integrated into its products.
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Understand the concern, but every point of data we used here is completely anonymized and collected with user consent!
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So cracking down on these companies and forcing them to correctly categorize anonymized location data is a good step.
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The fact that you watched 'The Avengers' five times last week is not anonymized — you are selling that directly.
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It's all anonymized and normalized so in a given time period, the highest search volume is indexed to 100.
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The Belgian government gave the go-ahead on March 11 to start using anonymized data from local telecom companies.
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It's a hidden internet free-for-all, that you can only access via anonymized browsers like Tor or 12P.
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The latter provided the researchers with visibility on mobile traffic flow — via anonymized network flow metadata obtained from its users.
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Here's a sampling of the nearly two dozen responses I received, edited for clarity and anonymized to protect individuals' privacy.
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"We worked on a program to help mobile partners improve their networks through aggregated and anonymized performance metrics," Keough said.
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The proposed legislation does away the provision that the data must be anonymized, further jeopardizing any practical assumption of privacy.
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Vote Compass will adjust the results so they accurately reflect a voting population, and will provide us with anonymized data.
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If a proposal is approved, the researchers will receive the anonymized data from Facebook and accompanying funding from the foundations.
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They also offer opportunities to experiment with transparently sharing anonymized vehicle data, by holding automakers accountable to not misuse it.
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The broad strokes restrict sharing to either aggregate or anonymized data — but "aggregate" can mean a lot of different things.
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"All data the team collected has subjects' consent and is anonymized and encrypted to protect user privacy," wrote the researchers.
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Indeed, the two-year-old startup now plans to develop a database of anonymized data about its largely younger demographic.
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To get this result, the researchers looked at anonymized data from 130 million Tumblr users and 39 million Flickr users.
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From that secure location, Google is being granted limited access to anonymized patient information with which to train its algorithms.
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Yes, but: Ensuring the data collected is protected and anonymized will be crucial to earning public trust in these efforts.
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The comments sections underneath those photo galleries are full of other users, all anonymized, weighing in with correspondingly disturbing remarks.
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The anonymized call records were finally narrowed down to 3.2 million users — for whom both age and gender were available.
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Last week, US companies like Facebook or Google began discussing how to track infection hot spots using anonymized location data.
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And because the dark web is anonymized, it's likely that not even companies knew their staff were accessing this site.
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While each of the three companies highlighted that the data being collected is anonymized or pseudonymized, multiple recent studies by computer science researchers have called the notion of anonymized data into question — in most cases, researchers found that anonymous data stolen in breaches could be easily tied back to specific people with relatively high certainty.
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Monday morning, the New York Times published a horrifying investigation in which the publication reviewed a huge, "anonymized" dataset of smartphone location data from a third-party vendor, de-anonymized it, and tracked ordinary people through their day-to-day lives—including sensitive stops at places like Planned Parenthood, their homes, and their offices.
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On Thursday, it published a report on the malware threat based on anonymized customer data taken from the company's antivirus products.
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Select Analytics and you can choose which diagnostic data gets sent back to Apple—data which the company promises is anonymized.
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DeCelles and her colleague investigated several years of anonymized passenger data made accessible to them by a large international airline company.
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In that instance DeepMind is getting free access to one million "anonymized" eye scans to try to develop diagnosis AI models.
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Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of dollars worth of anonymized debit and credit card purchases, had more conservative estimates.
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Marketers say that the information they collect is anonymized, but it's easy to de-anonymize location data, according to several studies.
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Additionally, when users opt into sharing, app developers will also receive anonymized metrics for battery life, launch time, and memory leaks.
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If you know any founders who can share their anonymized insights with dark nights, please request them to fill this survey.
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First, Airbnb will give the city anonymized data for more than 17,000 listings between January 1, 2018, and February 18, 2019.
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But even anonymized data can be used with other troves of available information to figure out other personal details about you.
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Yes, we know they will be scrubbed and anonymized in the database, but how do I know the system is foolproof?
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Facebook has reportedly taken steps to make anonymized data sets available to researchers to understand how election interference happens on Facebook.
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Every technologist knows that specific and non-repudiable attribution is impossible because of anonymized ransomware, hacked third-parties, and forged IDs.
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But even when it's used anonymized data, the company has gotten into trouble for potential privacy violations related to healthcare research.
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Google complied and provided the police with anonymized data on 19 individuals within a 150-meter radius, according to NBC News.
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The data in the experiment was aggregated and anonymized, Facebook says, but it shows the reach of Facebook's digital surveillance apparatus.
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Looking at 757,000 anonymized Android users, it showed that distracted driving due to our devices is still very much an issue.
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Then they were shown anonymized tweets mentioning one of the 215 women and asked if the tweets were problematic or abusive.
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Google has used anonymized location and contextual data since 2014 to estimate brick and mortar store visits spurred by online ads.
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Make no mistake, the Watson Health Cloud will allow data to be de-anonymized when doctors need a patient's specific information.
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"We do publish match alert statistics periodically, but they are anonymized in terms of the players and matches involved," Harrison said.
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Apple is updating its privacy policy for Apple Card to enable sharing more anonymized data with Goldman Sachs, its financial partner.
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Buckee notes that aggregate, anonymized location data is already made available to researchers by Google, Facebook, Uber, and cell phone companies.
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Data marketing is largely unregulated on the federal level and even anonymized data could be tied to individuals, privacy experts caution.
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The plaintiff alleges that the company obtained health data that could easily be de-anonymized and tied to people's real identities.
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But even if their data is anonymized, consumers may be unnerved to learn that an algorithm is monitoring their night out.
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"We're building right now software that enables developers to automatically check out an anonymized version of the data set," said Watson.
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Based simply on research about their locations, the newspaper's reporters were easily able to connect the anonymized data with real people.
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Veritas has to find other ways to prove the ages of some people before adding their anonymized genomes to the database.
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Nearly half said they strongly disagreed with the idea of tech firms handling sensitive patient data, even if it was anonymized.
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On March 17 Austria's biggest telecoms network operator Telekom Austria AG announced it was sharing anonymized location data with the government.
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IBM is providing Watson Genomics to the VA as a gift and will not own the anonymized data that it is analyzing.
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It was revealed last week that Strava, a popular fitness app, had inadvertently exposed sensitive military bases by releasing supposedly anonymized data.
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FIFA solely provides the ministry with ticket application IDs in an anonymized procedure, thus not sharing any personal data with the ministry.
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But that research partner could in turn share your anonymized data in a research journal, and it's possible someone might identify it.
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Clearing your history gets rid of any identifying information for an individual's account, but Facebook says the anonymized data will still exist.
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A dedicated dashboard shows businesses how many Vouchers are redeemed and allows them to export anonymized trip information streamline reporting and billing.
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Yahoo's Webscope program is not new, and already offers a number of datasets comprised of anonymized user data for non-commercial use.
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Facebook will provide the researchers with data from the platform's APIs for CrowdTangle, its Ad Library, and, eventually, an anonymized URL dataset.
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Everyone says it's an anonymized, aggregated data, but there are ways data scientists have been able to back into these data sets.
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NG: We make zero revenue from our data today and if we did anything, it would only be with aggregated, anonymized data.
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As for privacy, he emphasized that these users have opted in to share their data, and that it's all aggregated and anonymized.
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" However, the Willow privacy policy says that data that has been anonymized in some way will not be treated as "personal information.
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The information will be anonymized, but it will reveal demand flow according to traffic zones already in use by regulators in municipalities.
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The power of that information, even in aggregate and anonymized, is enough to have drawn big brands to the platform at launch.
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The company will partner with Orcale to use anonymized email addresses and mobile IDs to match information with Snapchat's own user base.
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Facebook disputes that private messages are scanned in bulk, and maintains the URL data is anonymized and only used in aggregate form.
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All of them will hurry to say that the data, when used to inform business decisions, is completely anonymized or non-identifiable.
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Sanofi, Cegedim and IBM will provide anonymized electronic health records for you to design data-driven solutions for HCPs and their patients.
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As a result, some advertisers might proceed with increased caution to ensure that their customer messaging and anonymized data is fully controlled.
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Problems tend to emerge over time, and despite what Apple says, security researchers have found that "anonymized" data doesn't always stay anonymous.
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Sanofi, Cegedim, and IBM will provide anonymized electronic health records, for you to design data-driven solutions for HCPs and their patients.
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As is expected with Apple now, searches and results are all encrypted and anonymized and cannot be attributed to any individual user.
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If you're unsure what you could ask for, there's an anonymized feed of real examples from other users to spark your imagination.
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Elsewhere in Facebook: The company has put on hold a request for hospitals to share anonymized patient data for a research project.
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Sidewalk Labs says that all data would be anonymized, with any personally identifiable information being encrypted and routinely deleted after being aggregated.
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Facebook insists that the data used for its Disease Prevention Maps is anonymized, relying only on data that's de-identified and aggregated.
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The app prompts users to input their mobile number, which the Singapore government says is paired with an anonymized ID for tracking.
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The US has started using anonymized mobile phone location data to study the spread of the coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Under a White House proposal, the officials are working with advertisers to pull widely available anonymized geolocation data into a national portal.
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In 2018, 23andMe cut off third-party app makers from accessing your anonymized genetic info (customers had to authorize third party access).
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In 2019, a whistleblower alleged that Google Health had been gaining access to millions of Americans' medical data without it being anonymized.
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Salama says his platform also protects the privacy of drivers, because it mostly works with anonymized data and doesn't handle payments itself.
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Like other smart speakers, Facebook audits a subset of anonymized recordings and has human reviewers listen to them to improve the service.
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At least one of these options would bar the company from sharing their data with any other company, no matter how anonymized.
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In recent weeks, mobile operators have started to share anonymized data with EU governments in response to the spread of COVID-19.
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Some countries are collecting anonymized data to study movement of people more generally, while others are providing detailed information about individuals' movements.
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The bank said the information was shared on an anonymized basis meaning the customer's name is replaced by a unique identifying number.
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Last year, the company vowed to provide anonymized data about hosts and guests to city policymakers as part of its "Airbnb Community Compact."
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Lowe says that all (anonymized) customer data will be kept internally and they'll be licensing Helios's technology and infrastructure to sort through it.
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As for privacy, he said the data is "all aggregated and anonymized and subject to all the privacy policies of the carriers themselves."
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Orig3n's original privacy policy raised questions as to whether the company might be planning to disseminate users' anonymized genetic information to third parties.
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Inside Moderator, the NYT Comment Interface Moderator combines Perspective's models with more than 16 million anonymized, moderated Times comments going back to 2007.
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What to watch: The industry will have to determine the types of data that can be shared and how it will be anonymized.
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But there were hints: An attorney representing the state's carefully anonymized supplier had previously represented Foundation Care in an unrelated lawsuit in 2011.
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That's because Facebook's targeted ads depend on data gathered from individual user profiles, whereas Google leans on anonymized search results to serve ads.
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Recommendations are based on anonymized aggregated category data, Shopify says, and so won't ever reveal the exact secret sauce of your closest competitor.
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Black emphasized that those entities, including Genentech, Stanford and the Michael J. Fox Foundation, are only using that anonymized genetic information for research.
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Photos are anonymized for the purpose of training the AI, and the data used by the API to determine routes is publicly available.
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This past June, Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center were sued for allegedly failing to scrub timestamps from anonymized medical records.
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The company has anonymized data from 1,500 companies, including three billion consumers and 400 million business profiles, representing $3 trillion in consumer purchases.
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Like 4chan and 8chan, iMGSRC is an "image board" — an anonymized web forum that allows users to host photos and comment on them.
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In the mid-80s, instead of elaborate headpieces, DJs hid their identities in a different way—by using a variety of anonymized aliases.
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The fact that Apple is sharing a new anonymized, non-personally identifiable information (PII), customer model with Goldman likely engenders two valid responses.
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"European mobile operators are also to make such anonymized mass data available to the EU Commission at its request," the spokesperson told us.
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The company also uses the information in an aggregated, anonymized form to figure out when stores are busy and to provide traffic estimates.
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The data is anonymized so it's not tied to a specific user, and there's no GPS or location-tracking abilities in the hardware.
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New data from SuperFly, an Israeli firm that tracks anonymized spending data, shows just how drastic the drop-off has been for Uber.
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Some countries are collecting anonymized data to study the movement of people more generally, while others are providing detailed information about individuals' movements.
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A Google spokesperson said some of the data needs to be non-anonymized so that developers can make sure their products are working.
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Being able to see the same things other people are seeing about your personal data — even if they are anonymized — just seems fair.
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He described a collaboration that involved Mayo's subject matter experts working with AliveCor's technologists to analyze a huge volume of anonymized patient data.
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It also includes video footage of games, information on playing surface and environmental factors, and anonymized player injury data, according to the NFL.
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Several said the CFPB's previous collection of anonymized data from millions of loans, mortgages and credit cards posed a massive risk to Americans.
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A big selling point by these new players is the anonymized data they can provide cities, which can help immensely with infrastructure planning.
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"Our global heat map represents an aggregated and anonymized view of over a billion activities uploaded to our platform," Strava said in a statement.
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Under GINA, employers only have the right to access anonymized aggregate data about their employees' health that's collected as part of a wellness program.
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Indeed, the suggestion is that no "anonymized" and released big data set can be considered safe from re-identification — not without strict access controls.
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However, advertisers will not be able to view users' photos, their names or addresses, download user data or view anonymized personal info, Flag says.
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The sensors collect on-the-fly anonymized data which is then accessed through a dashboard, giving companies insight into how spaces are being utilized.
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That average, represented in the graph below, pulls anonymized financials from 17 participating media outlets, but not all 17 publishers make revenue from Snapchat.
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Google says the estimates are based on "anonymized historical data," which is how it calculates wait times for businesses like museums and grocery stores.
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Hair stylists and makeup artists "don't want to be anonymized and dispatched at random, they want to be recognized for their talent," Katzberg says.
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The NHTSA is today offering an open data set of anonymized but detailed info regarding these accidents, three months earlier than it typically does.
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The NYC taxi data set would have remained as anonymized as intended with a simple salting of medallion numbers input to an MD5 hash.
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All of this makes sense for the service to work, but what's concerning is the lack of details on how this information is anonymized.
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The anonymized trip data, available on a website called Uber Movement, allow its users to take advantage of Uber's vast pool of traffic information.
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The information that feeds these real-time predictions comes from users who have (wittingly and unwittingly) granted Google consent to use their anonymized data.
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All that "anonymized" data your TV is collecting isn't so anonymous if it gets paired with just one other piece of your personal information.
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The deal will allow them to combine anonymized navigation information crowdsourced from the 100 million drivers who use Waze with Waycare's proprietary traffic analytics.
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Using exclusive, anonymized data from Upsolve that included over 1,000 individual bankruptcy cases, LendEDU explored how serious the student debt and bankruptcy conundrum is.
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DeepMind Health says all patient records will be anonymized DeepMind and NHS's partnership became a topic of concern shortly after DeepMind Health was launched.
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Even anonymized data — if that's truly what it was in this case, as its follow up tweet claims — can be re-identified pretty easily.
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But it's not very hard to link that anonymized data back to you, explains Timothy Libert, a doctoral student researching health data and privacy.
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The data is anonymized and aggregated, he said, and the employer only sees the number of people who are at risk for certain conditions.
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They must also share anonymized trip data with the city, which is a level of transparency that companies such as Uber have historically resisted.
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TEQuitable, a platform created by Lisa Gelobter and Heidi Williams, connects workers with real-world support and can send companies anonymized alerts about complaints.
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Finally, "City Activity" monitoring would include collecting anonymized sightings of wireless devices (probably via Wi-Fi) and a video camera watching the kiosk's surroundings.
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The notion has rankled privacy advocates, but Facebook insists that the data is anonymized and presented in general trends, not used to track individuals.
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Resident former VC Danny Crichton dug into the data — based on an anonymized survey of founder-users — and highlighted some surprising trends on TechCrunch.
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"We're exploring ways that aggregated anonymized location information could help in the fight against COVID-19," a Google spokesperson told Bloomberg in an email.
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And, as is the case with any urban sensor technology, any data collected by new streetlight technology will need to be anonymized and secure.
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Don't worry, thought, it's anonymized and the company has taken pains to ensure your most intimate data is as secure as it can be.
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But extensive research has shown that such data can usually be easily "de-anonymized" by connecting a few known data points about a person.
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When Slice found digital ride receipts from Lyft in some users' accounts, it sold the anonymized data off to Lyft's ride-hailing rival, Uber.
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Legewie gathered data on 3.9 million births in California, which are available to researchers, in anonymized form, through the state's Department of Public Health.
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Italy, which has been particularly hard-hit by the coronavirus outbreak, has also signed a deal with telecoms operators to collect anonymized location data.
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JPMorgan Chase Institute: Looked at income streams from 30 distinct online platforms in the past 3.5 years, extracted from anonymized JPMorgan Chase bank accounts.
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On device, it learns how I speak and, off device, takes anonymized intelligence from a growing number of users to improve its response and abilities.
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At Sema4, patients will be told, in detail, how their data will be encrypted, anonymized, and scrubbed of identifying information (except for an encryption key).
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Of course how Apple and Google use this data is a whole other conversation: Encrypted and anonymized the data may be, but it's still collected.
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Gizmodo has reached out to MoviePass to ask what data it will collect from subscribers and if that data will be anonymized when it's sold.
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As Lin told me, the Foodie List is based on an anonymized cohort analysis that looks at where people who go out a lot gather.
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As Polksy explained, even "anonymized" face recognition data could be linked to other security footage, purchase history, or even wifi connections to re-identify people.
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In exchange for the anonymized ML training data, Jigsaw and Times worked together to build a platform called Moderator, which rolled out in June 103.
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It also will display the ad's budget, and the number of people who saw it, plus aggregated, anonymized data on their age, gender and location.
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The apps then sell anonymized or pseudonymized versions of that information to clients that are interested in consumer trends, like finance and e-commerce companies.
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Just as Facebook markets information to third-party companies, for-profit genome testing companies like 23andMe make money, in part, by selling anonymized genomic data.
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He had developed procedures to prevent errors from happening and a system to catalog anonymized data so it could be shared with outsiders, he explained.
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Vector Media offered attendees free WiFi at major hotels, shuttle buses, and convention centers throughout the week in exchange for collecting anonymized app usage data.
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JDW: I'm interested in your perspective on vaporwave as an emergent genre that uses both collage and erasure to reclaim privatized, corporatized, and anonymized space.
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Google Maps has had Popular Times, which uses "aggregated and anonymized data from users who have opted in to Google Location History" for some time.
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When it's over, there will be a database of anonymized data that plenty of researchers — including those from the pharmaceutical industry — will have access to.
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The list also anonymized submitters and victims, making it next to impossible for the self-identified victims of one alleged attacker to find each other.
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Marshmello is allowed to perform as himself, while Blocboy JB, 2 Milly, and the rest have only their moves stolen and placed in anonymized bodies.
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Apple said on Friday it had paused the program called "grading", where it reviewed anonymized recordings of conversations people had with its Siri voice assistant.
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"Anonymized votes/ballots are being recorded on Agora's blockchain, which will be publicly available for any interested party to review, count and validate," said Gammar.
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Jumpshot tracks anonymized data from 100 million global users across platforms who've opted in to share their data in exchange for free Avast antivirus software.
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The study is supposedly comprised of interviews with three anonymized men in Poland and Ukraine who engaged in sexual behaviors with corpses, according to Sendler.
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All the genetic and other medical data collected by UK Biobank has been anonymized and participants will not get any feedback on their individual circumstances.
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Enter fintech companies, whose services include handling customer deposits, just like traditional banks, and also selling their anonymized data to research firms and hedge funds.
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And with an enhancement to Facebook's Analytics for Apps, developers can now learn a lot more about their users in a privacy-safe, anonymized format.
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According to data from Second Measure, a research firm that uses anonymized credit card data, Lyft has upped its presence while Uber has lost ground.
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Facebook said that the audio transcriptions referenced in the Bloomberg story were anonymized and used to check that its artificial intelligence accurately understood the messages.
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DT:No, because the way we've built our infrastructure, we're very HIPAA focused, so in terms of patient data it's fully anonymized on our back end.
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Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project.
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That information — which the company stressed is anonymized to protect users — is then offered to companies which can place messages such as promotions or deals.
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There were some cases where it was fully anonymized information, and that was simply to inform some of the analytics work that they were doing.
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"Wherever technically possible, and legally permissible, Vodafone will be willing to assist governments in developing insights based on large, anonymized datasets," CEO Nick Read said.
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"Wherever technically possible, and legally permissible, Vodafone will be willing to assist governments in developing insights based on large, anonymized datasets," CEO Nick Read said.
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You could imagine a version of these systems that collects workplace data, but it's anonymized and aggregated and only used to improve workflows and processes.
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They have both relied on anonymized or encrypted social media channels, chat applications and gaming platforms to avoid law enforcement while getting their messages out.
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Aggressively anti-advertising, the Chromium-based browser strips sites of their ads while allowing users to opt in to its own set of anonymized advertising.
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Publishers will be able to see anonymized, aggregated data so that they can audit the payouts, but they can't see what individual people are reading.
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There's a few caveats: companies can still sell your data if it's "anonymized," even though numerous studies have shown this data isn't all that anonymous.
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They say it does this in real-time, to realistically superimpose new faces onto your body while you move and talk, for anonymized streaming videos.
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Early on he tells the story of Latanya Sweeney, who in the 1990s produced a now famous study of anonymized public health data in Massachusetts.
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Computers help us pinpoint where on the human genome this Neanderthal DNA is, and we run that against information from the patients' anonymized medical records.
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For instance, podcast creators can now see (aggregated and anonymized, not device- or user-specific) data about when listeners stopped listening to a particular episode.
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Well, someone read Evernote's policy and found out that the company was going to let engineers have access to user notes in an anonymized fashion.
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As part of its mission to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health, the American College of Cardiology has been engaged in discussions with Facebook around the use of anonymized Facebook data, coupled with anonymized ACC data, to further scientific research on the ways social media can aid in the prevention and treatment of heart disease—the #1 cause of death in the world.
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"As part of its mission to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health, the American College of Cardiology has been engaged in discussions with Facebook around the use of anonymized Facebook data, coupled with anonymized ACC data, to further scientific research on the ways social media can aid in the prevention and treatment of heart disease — the #1 cause of death in the world," she said.
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"Cellular network connection counts can provide anonymized information on the movement patterns of individuals within a defined area," the researchers wrote in Environmental Science and Technology.
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But researchers have discovered that an "anonymized" data dump released by Strava last year has accidentally revealed sensitive locations, including US military bases around the world.
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" They were able to find the name and hometown of another anonymized person through related searches by typing in the defendant's name "and a simple term.
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An anonymized version of the data that did not include customers' name or contact information was sold to third parties for advertising and audience measurement purposes.
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Foursquare sells this anonymized and aggregated information to companies like Snapchat and Twitter, which want to target ads and build out their own location-based features.
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Facebook will additionally stop providing "anonymized data from its platform to such data brokers" for the purpose of measuring ad-campaign effectiveness, sources told the Journal.
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Phone numbers are also anonymized, routed through Uber's system so that neither driver nor passenger know the actual number of the person they're being connected to.
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Crowley has always made Foursquare's location features transparent and opt-in, and the location platform it now provides to other companies uses only anonymized, aggregated data.
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"In an email to Business Insider, Foxintelligence CEO Edouard Nattée emphasized that the company discloses to new users that it uses anonymized data from "transactional emails.
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The rise of cryptocurrency has provided another viable option — but even though users are anonymized, the blockchain keeps a record of every transaction in and out.
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The San Francisco-based Twilio has grown quickly by selling software that helps companies communicate with customers using voice, video and messaging in an anonymized manner.
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The company analyzed anonymized credit card data of more than 29,28 people who ate at Chipotle in 22016 to evaluate how their habits changed by 22016.
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Edison Trends, a market research firm that analyzes "anonymized and aggregated e-commerce e-receipts from millions of consumers in the United States," reported that Jet.
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The information doesn't have your name attached, but it's far from anonymized — and it's transmitted to Facebook regardless of whether users are logged into the platform.
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Users notably won't be able to see anonymized data that Oculus collects, which includes the in-VR movements that users make with their headsets and controllers.
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We checked our incoming traffic for Apple TV devices through the month of May, analyzing the anonymized and aggregated retention data from users on the platform.
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Bird has always offered anonymized data to cities in which it operates, but it admits that it can sometimes be clunky and difficult to parse through.
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It uses anonymized user data in its own research to improve Youper, but keeps it private and does not share or sell user data or information.
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But, as always when it comes to anonymized complaints, Gizmodo is publishing representative samples that fit a pattern we see pop up repeatedly in the documents.
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And while the information used in this research was anonymized and patients could opt out, the diagnostic software created from this data belongs solely to DeepMind.
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Edison's retention levels, however, were consistent with data from Second Measure, a firm that analyzes billions of dollars worth of anonymized debit and credit card purchases.
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Data gathered by DroneDeploy — which is provided by thousands of users in 135 counties, and then anonymized to protect privacy — is doubling every month, said Millin.
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Companies share their employees' anonymized salaries in exchange for access to the vault, which is searchable by job title, location, company size, revenue, and funding stage.
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The question of what Spotify stands to gain from filling their playlists with mostly unknown producers further anonymized by working pseudonymously is still a bit foggy.
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Once receiving the data, the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) can then request de-anonymized data for specific listings that are likely to be illegal.
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While you might be totally cool with that, it's something to consider: Do you care what hands your genetic information lands in, even if it's anonymized?
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Yeah. So, they can take information and piece it together, about you particularly, even though it's supposed to be anonymized or put in a bulk, correct?
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And, though the currency is harder to trace than cash, transactions between anonymized sources can still be traced by law enforcement, leading to some security issues.
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Researchers would have to agree to not, say, hand the data over to the police, or try to figure out the identities of anonymized study participants.
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The company pushed back against the complaint, insisting that it only has access to aggregated, anonymized data and not personally identifiable information about consumers' shopping habits.
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The product security team included a privacy group that examined whether data was properly encrypted and anonymized, among other functions, according to three former Apple employees.
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These machine learning systems are then fed pictures from ImageNet and its ilk, proprietary images (aka Google Photos) or other sources (like anonymized, indexed clinical records).
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Volvo Cars reiterated its call to the rest of the car industry to join it in sharing anonymized data related to traffic safety across car brands.
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The ride-hailing company unveiled on Sunday a new website that will let government officials and urban planners access anonymized data about 2 billion of trips.
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They scraped tweets from the Twitter search API, anonymized the data, and used 73 psychometric indicators to tease out the mood and emotion behind the tweets.
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While sources told Forbes the tool currently uses anonymized data, they also said personally identifiable information could be used in the future, raising significant privacy concerns.
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Cassell and other experts suggested that companies that want to analyze users' utterances first ensure user data is anonymized, which is a common practice among companies.
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"Researchers are already using aggregated and anonymized Facebook data — including mobility data and population density maps — to better understand how the virus is spreading," he wrote.
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Via partnerships with more than 100 organizations, Facebook provides disaster maps and relief organizations with information about where to distribute supplies, based on aggregated, anonymized data.
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To that end, many insurers are teaming up with technology companies such as Polish startup Infermedica, whose software analyzes anonymized health information to provide preliminary diagnoses.
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The data is anonymized, meaning individuals' names are not attached to the information, and can be used as a proxy for the health of a rival.
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With BigCommerce, Square will get anonymized transaction data for a given business that will give it enough information to pre-qualify the merchant for a loan.
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That database will store anonymized data about individual defendants—including, among other things, previously unrecorded details about their ethnicities and the precise terms of their plea deals.
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And finally, there's Uber Movement, a data project that shows (anonymized) Uber usage and patterns for cities to use and understand, is expanding to 12 new cities.
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The researchers behind this current study looked at the anonymized medical records of patients who visited the emergency room of a large urban hospital in Northern California.
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The company collects all the data on its patients in a randomized and anonymized fashion in order to provide information on population health, according to a statement.
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There are obviously privacy implications here, and Microsoft says all data and images will be anonymized so that the algorithms are only detecting feature points around you.
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In reflection of the 2017 recruiting season, Glassdoor took some time to analyze its anonymized salary data, producing a report of the highest-paying internships for 2017.
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While the data is supposed to be anonymized and aggregated, in practice it's often trivially easy to link particular movements to an individual, according to the report.
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Quite the opposite; I believe that as many datasets as possible should be made public, as long as we can be confident that they are sufficiently anonymized.
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Like everyone else who competed, 4DRStorm was anonymized during the competition, meaning only the commentators and fans watching online could see his name, but not other competitors.
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It's the backdrop for Facebook's head of health research going on stage this week to promote the idea of hospitals sharing anonymized patient data with the company.
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Though anonymized, a recent report from The New York Times showed how easy it is to connect this data to identities of people in the real world.
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So one thing the company could do is consider ways of making that data available, even if only in anonymized fashion, to researchers in closely monitored environments.
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Behind the scenes, Billgren said Acast is checking anonymized user data against the publisher's API to confirm that you really do have permission to access the feed.
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The service, which will arrive to public use in "coming months," allows the user to access "detailed historical insights" generated by anonymized Uber rider and driver data.
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It is part of Waze's Connected Citizens Program, which gives cities around the world access to anonymized driver data to help them manage traffic and road infrastructure.
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One agency exec said that it's hard to pull out data from IDs that's used in ad targeting, like anonymized phone numbers, email addresses, and device information.
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Most notoriously, a Wall Street Journal report exposed Google's contract with a healthcare provider to analyze non-anonymized patient health data — a deal patients weren't aware existed.
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You can see how easy access to an anonymized services like that might come in handy when you're working on anything from job hunting to political organizing.
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None of the ~1.6 million people whose non-anonymized medical records had been passed to the Google-owned company had been informed or asked for their consent.
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Because even anonymized data can be easily correlated to an individual when correlated across datasets, any pretense of privacy is out the window, for mother and baby.
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Looking across its anonymized data set of contracts, Atrium can recommend the best clauses and most common set ups, like four-year vesting with one-year cliffs.
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Working with Microsoft, researchers from Columbia University did statistical analysis on "anonymized" searches by millions of users that contained terms that might be related to cancer symptoms.
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Or teams could be granted anonymized metadata about all players for research purposes, but would never be given identifying information about the players whose performance they're analyzing.
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Apple, meanwhile, saves Siri voice recordings for six months, then saves a copy of the data in a more anonymized fashion for up to two years longer.
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The registration information for one of the German sites includes an anonymized email address that was also used to set up a pair of Russian spearphishing sites.
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More than 12,500 records were anonymized for men and women, most of them middle-aged, who had visited the clinic at least twice between 1987 and 2006.
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A.I. requires a lot of data, and when it comes to people's personal health information, it's incredibly difficult to gain access, even if the data is anonymized.
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Countries including the UK, Germany, and Belgium have either implemented or are considering the use of aggregated, anonymized data to track how people are responding to lockdowns.
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The creators of the popular app Clue say they have 2.5 million users in 180 countries, and share anonymized data with women's health researchers from top universities.
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In fact, many apps collect personal data — including data that's far more sensitive than anonymized app usage trends — by way of their included SDKs (software development kits).
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In the startup's utopian vision, companies can skip over the major advertising giants like Google and Facebook and buy access to anonymized data from the users themselves.
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The technology makes key data — like actual ad impressions, frequency, reach, plus anonymized age, gender and device type — available to podcasters and advertisers for the first time.
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It is anonymized but shows each person's gender, race, G.P.A. and LSAT score, sorted by the schools they applied to and whether or not they got in.
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Buettner and Craig went on to match those printouts to individual filings in the public, anonymized reports of the top earners that the IRS publishes each year.
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Ironically, for those who are particularly privacy sensitive, the notion of paying for a highly secure, completely anonymized truly "dumb pipe" could also be an attractive option.
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But an anonymized running record, like a community police blotter, would be a valuable window into how the rules work and why moderators behave the way they do.
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Methodology: Researchers looked at 15,000 anonymized Facebook networks involving 770,000 people to see how resilient human social structures were after the person at the center of them died.
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They're light, durable, water-resistant, and stylish in a cyberpunkish, anonymized way—unless you're hip enough to recognize subtle tells, like the jaunty cant of the change pocket.
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From Jigsaw's perspective, the incubator saw the opportunity to feed Perspective anonymized data from millions of comments per day, moderated by professionals who could help refine the process.
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I'd feel a lot better if Amazon just effectively anonymized the data in the first place and used on-device processing the build a profile on my voice.
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The project is backed by data that includes anonymized and aggregate Bing search queries, IE user sessions, and Microsoft's offline copy of the web and social media sites.
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A different MIT study of anonymized credit card data found that users could be identified 90 percent of the time using just four relatively vague points of information.
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He was part of a team that designed an app to collect, among other things, anonymized call and text log data from Android users who'd provided informed consent.
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Fox and Google claim that the data is "fully anonymized" and "user privacy-complaint," but it's not clear exactly what data is included or how it is gathered.
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The study looked at deposits made into the checking accounts of more than 229,22014 anonymized customers who made money from online platforms between October 20163 and June 22016.
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The company will also provide (not sell) anonymized loan data to nonprofits and research institutions who are working to advance the national conversation and policy around student loans.
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Data will only be shared in specific instances in anonymized ways for research or adoption measurement, for hunting down fraudsters or due to a request from law enforcement.
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Facebook can then track whether people who look at these ads on mobile actually visit the stores featured and hand that information (in anonymized form) over to advertisers.
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Mozilla stresses that this data doesn't come from some kind of real-time monitoring system but that it's aggregated and anonymized data from a subset of its users.
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On the other hand, when meme casualty Ken Bone accidentally de-anonymized his Reddit account, his comments and porn habits made their way into The New York Times.
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When one point of anonymized metadata is linked with information in other databases—like, say, those maintained by the NSA and GCHQ—its identifying power becomes even stronger.
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They could include additional levels of oversight for sensitive genetic studies involving anonymized data, such as stakeholder advisory boards, or requiring a bioethicist to embed on such projects.
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Responses are anonymized, so that if Sara in marketing says she plans to quit within the next two years, it&aposs not like all her coworkers find out.
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Facebook (FB) asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project, CNBC has learned.
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In an alarming result, the Science study found that a supposedly "anonymized" genetic profile taken from a medical data set could be uploaded to GEDmatch and positively identified.
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When buying a home, residents agreed to share anonymized data on energy usage with Alabama Power and meet researchers monthly to discuss their experience and likes and dislikes.
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Known's data team then builds audience segments based on the research and anonymized online behavior data from vendors, and the creatives then develop ads based on the findings.
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The broadband suppliers have "valuable, anonymized profiles of users," Mr. Gallant said, adding, "But it's not clear what the size of the market for the raw data is."
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Jumpshot, launched in 2015, provides marketers with trend analytics and statistics on customer purchasing habits "that was anonymized, rather than specific user targeting", according the the blog post.
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It's more elegant, but it's also more composed: The patients in the book are anonymized and sometimes composites, so it's Gottlieb's prose that leads to big "aha!" moments.
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Several alternative data companies buy anonymized credit card data from sources like personal finance apps to get more detailed information about how and where people are spending money.
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The US is reportedly in talks with Facebook and Google to use anonymized location data to track the spread of the disease — although Mark Zuckerberg subsequently denied this.
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An ambitious scheme to pool anonymized NHS patient data for both academic and commercial use had to be scrapped in 2016 after protests from both patients and doctors.
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The ride-hail company spent much of its early existence fighting off any attempts made by local regulators to gain access to varying degrees of its anonymized data.
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The company faced criticism last year over its business model, which involved selling anonymized user data to businesses—not the kind of behavior you'd expect from a privacy tool.
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As we saw in the NYT report, this data is often described as anonymized in most privacy policies, but it's not too difficult for someone to join the dots.
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The anonymized A-B- from the case is a woman from El Salvador who endured more than a decade of beatings, death threats, and rape by her ex-husband.
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The group was trying to hatch a plan in which the social network would share users' anonymized data with major US hospitals, according to a CNBC report in April.
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Private individuals can't just waltz in, slam their money on a table (what table??) and demand targeted, de-anonymized internet data on individual users, successful GoFundMe campaign or not.
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The more troublesome aspects included non-anonymized, real-time information about its users (the company also used "God View" on a journalist who was arriving for meetings with Uber).
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All of the benefits of a cryptographically secured, publicly verified, anonymized transaction system can be erased by errant code, malicious actors or poorly defined parameters of an executable agreement.
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San Francisco-based Twilio has grown rapidly — 88 percent last year — by selling software that helps companies communicate with their customers using voice, video and messaging in anonymized fashion.
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San Francisco-based Twilio has grown rapidly — 22013 percent last year — by selling software that helps companies communicate with their customers using voice, video and messaging in anonymized fashion.
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On Monday, Uber threatened a lawsuit against LA's Department of Transportation (LADOT) pushing back against the requirement that scooter operators share anonymized real-time location data with the city.
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There's no facial recognition that goes into it, working in such a way that tries to keep the data anonymized and then removed once the person leaves the store.
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That data doesn't have your name attached, but as Mobilsicher shows, it's far from anonymized, and it's transmitted to Facebook regardless of whether users are logged into the platform.
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The reveal comes from a somewhat unexpected place: an overview about how Apple collects anonymized user data and analytics in iOS and macOS to better improve the user experience.
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Moreover, Facebook could ameliorate another chunk of the criticism if it credibly anonymized user data on the Free Basics platform, discontinuing its policy of keeping excessive personally identifiable information.
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With this in mind, last year Facebook began discussions ... to explore whether scientific research using anonymized Facebook data could help the medical community advance our understanding in this area.
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By participating in the scheme, managers consent to share their data with BlackRock's behavioral finance team, though it may be shared more broadly in an aggregate or anonymized format.
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And by sitting on these platforms, a treasure trove of insight is able to be generated from aggregated (and, yes, anonymized and suitably secured in terms of privacy) data.
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The data used by the researchers was anonymized, meaning it did not carry identifying markers like a user name, so the individuals conducting the searches could not be contacted.
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Now, when you use Apple Maps on your phone, the company collects anonymized chunks of data about your route, which in turn helps Apple improve things like traffic data.
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By mining user data, anonymized or not, and effectively banning users the algorithm deems suspicious, public Wi-Fi is starting to look a lot like a route to censorship.
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Similar to peer products used by other companies, Castle also assigns a "risk score" to each individual anonymized user, with different degrees of events raising or lowering that score.
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Facebook, once criticized for gathering too much EU personal data, is now asked to share anonymized metadata with the Commission to help predict the peak of the coronavirus outbreak.
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On a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg drew a distinction between sharing aggregate data in an anonymized fashion and raw, granular data about specific individuals.
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Earlier this week, for example, MEP Sophie in't Veld wrote to Breton asking for more information on the data grab — including querying exactly how the data will be anonymized.
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Facebook does, however, have a disease mapping tool that it says uses aggregated and anonymized data to show general trends, which could be used to track the virus' spread.
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The practice has raised the ire of privacy advocates, but location data firms and their partners insist that people's movements are anonymized and not directly tied to their identities.
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The company has genetic data on around 10 million people, and it says around 80 percent agreed to let their anonymized data be used for research, including drug research.
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It does not use facial recognition technology and data will be anonymized and aggregated, and the company might use the information to inform its new products, Fast Company reports.
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Aggregated information can be purchased from navigation companies, for example, and combined with other so-called anonymized information from dating apps to identify the habits of a specific demographic.
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Researchers, academics and telecoms executives say that as the coronavirus crisis has spread so quickly, the usefulness of such anonymized mobile phone metadata is quickly coming to an end.
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Chief data officer Igor Perisic said the Microsoft-owned company is putting controls in place to protect user privacy, and will only allow approved researchers to view aggregate, anonymized data.
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Researchers from two universities in Europe have published a method they say is able to correctly re-identify 99.98% of individuals in anonymized data sets with just 153 demographic attributes.
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Access to as much data as possible — anonymized, and collected from all connected vehicles on the road today — would help AV companies develop self-driving technology more quickly and safely.
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A group of the sites are also linked via an anonymized email address that also registered a site used in a sting operation targeting an NGO linked to George Soros.
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It then uses machine learning to let you swipe through available job opportunities mapped to your potential career path, while on the other side recruiters can browse your anonymized profile.
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In one 2019 UK study, researchers were able to develop a machine learning model capable of correctly identifying 99.98 percent of Americans in any anonymized dataset using just 15 characteristics.
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He said that Zipongo did not sell any information on its users to advertisers and that any data shared with employers for the purposes of analyzing the service was anonymized.
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Most data brokers avoid scrutiny by saying the data they collect and sell is "anonymized," or a summary of a lot of people's information, rather than a single individual's data.
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Users accessing ProtonMail via Tor will have their connections anonymized — meaning the email service won't be able to see (and thus couldn't be forced to divulge) their true IP address.
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Adobe said its figures come from tracking 133 billion aggregated and anonymized visits to retail websites, covering some 213 percent of all online transactions for the top 215 U.S. retailers.
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Me, "collected its customers' emailed Lyft receipts from their inboxes and sold the anonymized data to Uber," who used it as "a proxy for the health of Lyft's business."Unroll.
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Yes. It uses segments of trips you take that have been anonymized called probe data to determine things like "is this a valid route?" or to glean traffic congestion information.
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They had to agree to share anonymized trip data, updated every 24 hours, on where each scooter or bike trip starts, where it ends, and its route through the city.
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It's clear Microsoft has a trust issue with Windows 10 for those who do not wish to transmit data back to the software giant, no matter how anonymized it is.
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At the end of that period, the group will publish an anonymized set of results to show the progress — or lack thereof — that the start-ups have made around diversity.
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The big picture: Municipalities could use anonymized, secure sensor data in combination with advanced computing to better understand how people travel through and use public space, without sacrificing individual privacy.
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The company combines this data with other information from companies such as Acxiom Corp's LiveRamp that can provide details such as age, gender and household income on an anonymized basis.
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Second Measure's data comes from a panel is made up of millions of anonymized U.S. consumers, and it analyzes billions of debit and credit card purchases to form its estimates.
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This new arrangement outlined in the privacy policy does not share any PII unless there is an opt-in, and even allows an opt-out of the anonymized model share.
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The takeout food delivery market is a fractured one, according to data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of dollars worth of anonymized debit and credit card purchases.
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Taiwanese authorities, for example, have pointed out linkages between anonymized cases, including family clusters, in an effort to warn the public how easily the virus is transmitted within households. Prof.
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Despite these opt-ins, end users may still not understand that their VPN app is actually tied to a much larger data collection operation, however anonymized that data may be.
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To build the AI system, researchers got anonymized mammograms from some 76,000 women in the UK and 15,000 women in the US. They used that data to train the system.
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One MIT study into anonymized credit card data found that the dates and locations of just a few purchases can easily reveal the identities of the consumer with minimal work.
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Our automated bot works by selecting four policy preferences at random for each anonymized voter, who are identified by their age, education, race, gender, home state and 2016 vote choice.
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It's legal (in the U.S.), it isn't particularly hard to do, and while the data is supposed to be anonymized, it's often easy to connect it to a real person.
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Jumpshot was engaged on a one-time basis to generate a report of anonymized, high-level trend data which validated other estimates of Google's siphoning of traffic from the web.
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"The DeepPrivacy GAN never sees any privacy sensitive information, ensuring a fully anonymized image," the researchers wrote on their Github repository, where the full code for the program is available.
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Unroll.me scanned the contents of its users' inboxes and sold anonymized data, information that did not have individuals' names attached to it — in this case, emailed Lyft receipts — to Uber.
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So a researcher built a personality quiz app under those guidelines, and people used the app — and in doing so, allowed it to harvest anonymized data from their Facebook profiles.
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While nothing official has been announced yet, the UK is in talks with major telecoms providers including O2 and EE are in talks to provide large sets of anonymized data.
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Now non-profit digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has voiced concerns around how that location data could be de-anonymized to identify individual riders and their routes.
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What's more, Links "will collect anonymized and aggregate data to develop insights on usage and system diagnostics to improve your Link experience and to deliver more relevant advertising," according to CityBridge.
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"We also have some investigation on the dark web in which the payments are made in cryptocurrencies, sometimes in bitcoin, and they are switching it to more anonymized cryptocurrencies," he said.
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There's no visceral response to Amazon owning and storing a literal copy of my desexualized, nearly nude body, some anonymized rendering of ones and zeros that's useful only in large quantities.
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Aware of the sensitive nature of the data it will handle, Polyteia's platform will receive only anonymized, aggregated data from its clients, complying with privacy laws and negating any potential risk.
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This is a somewhat controversial reporting technique, since anonymized IRS data is a useful tool for academic research that the agency has tended to be fairly stingy with for privacy reasons.
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If users opt in, that data can be anonymized and provided to research organizations, hospitals and pharma companies that pay RDMD, though these patients can delete their accounts at any time.
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Using Value Voting, advocacy group leaders share anonymized voter data with allies to know which elections they can influence, find candidates to run in those elections, and coordinate messaging across alliances.
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The company has also provided aid organizations with anonymized location data for users in areas affected by disasters — including where people were marking themselves as safe, and where they were fleeing.
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Gizmodo has reached out to Hedaya to ask how its data is anonymized and whether they would consider switching to opt-in consent; we'll let you know if we hear back.
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The app tries to be inclusive of everyone who menstruates, and the company behind it promises not to sell your health data (though it sometimes shares anonymized data sets with researchers).
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Using data from Second Measure — a firm that tracks billions of anonymized debit and credit transactions from millions of U.S. consumers — Patreon appears to be retaining patrons at a healthy rate.
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And while that aggregated and anonymized data holds critical information about traffic patterns, road hazards, potholes, accidents and even road kill, the burden is on cities to make sense of it.
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The Royal Free data-sharing agreement has been criticized for the amount of patient identifiable data being shared (especially as, unlike the Moorfields collaboration, the patient data is also not anonymized).
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Cavoukian wanted the data collection to be anonymized before it would be collected by any entity, and Sidewalk Labs was not willing to make that commitment on behalf of third parties.
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The first of these will be a "just like me" feature which will compare users with anonymized other individuals to provide some insights about that person's performance and also make suggestions.
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For example, CNBC has also reported that Facebook had explored a project that asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info.
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A mobile app is configured to read the RAD tags and then, when listeners hit that spot in the file, that information is sent to the URL in an anonymized format.
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In the first collaboration, with the Royal Free, where DeepMind is helping co-design an app to detect acute kidney injury, the patient data being supplied is not anonymized or pseudonymized.
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I do wish that the opt-out of the anonymized data model was presented in the flow of normal signup, rather than existing as an email address in the privacy policy.
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In an anonymized on-camera interview, CyberZeist himself says that he gained deep access to Alaska's vote tallying system and could have altered votes to influence the outcome of the election.
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Apple says that it will continue using anonymized computer-generated written transcripts of your request to feed its machine learning engines with data, in a fashion similar to other voice assistants.
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Its technology can help automatically generate fundraising contracts, hiring offers and cap tables for startups while using machine learning to recommend procedures and clauses based on anonymized data from its clients.
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If aggregated, our anonymized health records could become part of a large-scale data set to improve the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses across all medical fields using machine learning algorithms.
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The Markup used a new, clean Gmail address anonymized with Tor to sign up for email lists of 16 presidential candidates and other groups, and it compared results over four months.
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A Barclays spokeswoman said it was changing how it used the Sapience software so it would now track only anonymized data, in response to staff feedback that the system was intrusive.
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And so when we think about that at Textio, it's really important that people's data be able to be anonymized and aggregated so you can view it at the organization level.
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Census Bureau researchers analyzed a sample of 168 million anonymized census responses and found that 10 million people — or roughly one in 20 — had changed their race between 2000 and 2010.
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This is a somewhat controversial reporting technique, since anonymized IRS data is a very useful tool for academic research that the agency has tended to be fairly stingy with for privacy reasons.
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Photo: Tyler Dukes (WRAL)Google was served at least four sweeping search warrants by Raleigh, North Carolina police last year, requesting anonymized location data on all users within areas surrounding crime scenes.
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"We don't want people to be able to spread lies on the internet and never be de-anonymized, but we also don't want to deter people from saying truthful things," Tokson said.
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Basically, anonymized personal data from these data companies was baked into the Facebook Ad platform, accessible to advertisers from big digital marketing agencies to one-person businesses selling hand-knitted beer koozies.
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" She said the EFF agrees with Uber that "anonymized, aggregated data could be really useful for the city," but the way the LADOT is going out about it is "kind of terrifying.
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It has some advantage over competitors in this space because its network-level technology gives it access to verified (and anonymized) data about mobile subscribers, rather than having to make probabilistic guesses.
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The stated goal of the Orchid is to provide anonymized internet access to people across the globe, particularly individuals who live in countries with excessive government oversight of their browsing and shopping.
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The company announced Wednesday that it's launching a new product called "disaster maps," using aggregated, anonymized Facebook data in disaster areas to deliver crucial information to aid organizations during and after crises.
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For example, Google used anonymized location data and searches to launch "Popular Times" in November, an iteration on an earlier tool that would allow you to see a business's most hectic hours.
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Because only random segments of any person's drive is ever sent and that data is completely anonymized, there is never a way to tell if any trip was ever a single individual.
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Essentially little slices of vector data that represent direction and speed transmitted back to Apple completely anonymized with no way to tie it to a specific user or even any given trip.
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Only a handful of tech companies in the country—those capable of amassing large amounts of anonymized data on the speeds with which internet users across the country access its services—could.
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Of the three companies who are launching CareKit apps today, all informed The Verge that the data stored on their servers is anonymized, leaving any identifiable information locally stored on people's phones.
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And they will also get access to anonymized data reports on bot demographics, which include details like age, gender, education, interests, country and language to figure out who is using your bot.
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The popular app came under fire last year, after The New York Times reported it was selling anonymized data to Uber as part of the ride-hailing giant's bid to crush Lyft.
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The first is via the company SafeGraph, which looks at anonymized smartphone-location data from more than 230 million Americans, allowing researchers to observe actual travel at precise time and geographic levels.
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However, Porco underlines that there's no need to collect identity parameter in order to glean useful insights, and anonymized data about gaze point, age and gender along with duration of view suffice.
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Uber said the anonymized data, initially from Washington, D.C., Sydney and Manila, can be a resource for urban planners to analyze traffic patterns and make more informed decisions about civic infrastructure. on.wsj.
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How convenient… The ability to take an anonymized data set of cellphone locations, for example, and use it to identify individuals was already demonstrated in 2013 in an article published in Nature.
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But that is a little reassurance, according to privacy experts who point out that an individual's identity can easily be deduced from just a handful of anonymized mobile phone location data points.
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But in its partnership with Toyota and BMW, Nauto is providing that aggregated and anonymized data to the automakers so they can use it to program and develop their autonomous driving software.
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And companies should work closely with HHS to deploy additional security and privacy tools where appropriate and to share aggregated, anonymized data about how people are using their tools during the crisis.
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Prosecutors said the site was only accessible on the dark web, a term used for an encrypted and anonymized version of the internet that's accessible through services like the Tor anonymity network.
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According to data provided by analytics firm Second Measure, which looks at anonymized credit card and debit purchases, ClassPass sales in the United States have been growing over the past two years.
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Last year, researchers in Santiago, Chile, released a report based on their parsing of anonymized call detail records of female mobile phone users, to extract location information and analyze their mobility patterns.
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The bare-bones juror biographies list just the jurors' anonymized numbers, their birth dates, genders, races and ethnicities, occupations and similarly sparse details about their spouses and children, if they have them.
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Avast's free browser plugin is not only designed to protect users, but also takes anonymized browsing history which Avast then uses to provide insights on what groups of users are doing online.
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LONDON (Reuters) - From sending special offers on restaurants to burger-loving current account holders to selling anonymized credit card records, banks are racing to monetize the huge troves of data they hold.
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As first reported by CNBC on Thursday, Facebook's secretive research arm, Building 8, was looking to start a project that would have had them share users' anonymized data with several major US hospitals.
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The report states that CBP buys location data that includes an anonymized unique ID for a device detected, along with that device's location, time, date, and how many other signals are near it.
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Last week the UK parliament's Science and Technology Committee made a similar call for high quality anonymized data to be provided to further public interest research into the impacts of social media technologies.
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Indeed, new machine learning capabilities developed by companies like Google have already been used to re-identify anonymized patient data, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Second Measure, a startup that analyzes anonymized credit and debit card data, estimates that Stitch Fix's revenue has grown around 33 percent in the first 11-plus months of its current fiscal year.
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Facebook began speaking with hospitals last year about the possibility of matching anonymized user profiles with health data in an effort to improve medical care, according to a CNBC report exposing the program.
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In fact, at SXSW this year, Foursquare offered a limited run of a product called Hypertrending, which was essentially an anonymized view of real-time location data showing activity in the Austin area.
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While data shared from Watson could be especially interesting in the UA Record app, there's also the slightly unnerving idea of Watson having access to your data, whether it's completely anonymized or not.
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This gave them something many fertility clinics in the US do not have—videos of more than 10,000 fully anonymized embryos that could each be freeze-framed and fed into a neural network.
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The company plans eventually to offer a suite of after-market products and will be using some of the anonymized data they gather from the RearVision cameras to help inform those product decisions.
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" Such transcripts are not anonymized, according to the letter, though Huseman told Coons in his letter, "When a customer deletes a voice recording, we delete the transcripts associated with the customer's account of
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But what we as a country—regardless of political leanings—should be concerned about is the disrespect our elected officials are showing towards our constitutional rights, and the anonymized police officers' shirking accountability.
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"The AI Auto Damage Estimator app technology was trained using anonymized claims photos so the software could be built," wrote Ted Kwartler, the assistant vice president of Liberty Mutual Innovation, in an email.
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Airbnb, for example, in December 2015 released a cache of anonymized data about how people used Airbnb in New York City, but the information could be accessed only by appointment at Airbnb's office.
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Facebook said that it was true that the researcher approached Facebook in 2013 to undertake research using anonymized, aggregated data, and that in 2015 he had a "brief" consulting contract with the firm.
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" In a statement, Google said anonymized location data could help health officials "determine the impact of social distancing, similar to the way we show popular restaurant times and traffic patterns in Google Maps.
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Tired of just trusting Google, marketers want to track how many times an ad has been shown to a particular anonymized user, where it's happening and how people are interacting with the ad.
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The talks also include health experts tracking the pandemic and its transmission, and one possible way in which said data could be useful is through aggregated, anonymized location data, per the report's sources.
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Countries like Israel, Italy, and Austria are working with telecommunications networks to use anonymized location data to track people in infection hot spots and monitor whether citizens are breaking stay-in-place orders.
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All [related data] is encrypted and anonymized and every customer receives a unique ID [which is a series of digits so that even the storage facilities don't know whose sperm they are handling].
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There's little moistness here: ZAYN's sweet vocals never manage anguish or tension, and Ms. Swift has perhaps never been more obscured by digital manipulation, in places to the point where she's practically anonymized.
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Singh and de Montjoye previously worked on a 2015 study where researchers successfully identified real people in an ostensibly anonymized dataset of 3 months worth of credit card transactions covering 1.1 million people.
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That will reduce companies' ability to target them specifically on Facebook, though the tech company will continue to offer third-party companies anonymized data on its users as part of its advertising products.
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Nearly 60 percent of startups pay for Slack's workplace communications software, according to new data from Kruze Consulting, an accounting firm that analyzed anonymized spending of its nearly 200 venture capital-funded startups.
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According to a study published earlier this year, algorithms are capable of confidently identifying people based on just a few anonymized data points — and few companies have as much user data as Facebook.
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The Washington Post reported this week that big US tech firms including Facebook and Google had been in talks with the US to establish a similar disease-mapping system using anonymized location data.
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In addition to that pilot in D.C., the company is making its anonymized traffic data available in 12 more cities including Amsterdam, Bangalore, Brisbane, Cairo, Hyderabad, Melbourne, Mumbai, Nairobi, Perth, Pittsburgh and Toronto.
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Sales were up 28 percent in the first quarter of 2017, it sells anonymized user data, has a partnership with Facebook, has gotten into merchandising, owns Rotten Tomatoes, and even has a streaming service.
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Most activity logs across global databases, as massive as they are, are stored unencrypted without much safeguards to protect data against exposure, nor are they properly secured or anonymized when shared with third parties.
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On Monday, The New York Times published a story that showed just how easy it is to identify and locate people through anonymized data that's almost constantly being collected by apps on our phones.
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Google's new restaurant wait times also comes from the aggregated and anonymized data from users who opted in to Google Location History – the same data that powers popular times, wait times and visit duration.
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While the effort was eventually shuttered, Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek first downplayed the scandal, assuring the public the collected data had been "anonymized"—or stripped of any obvious identifiers like names or phone numbers.
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By sharing anonymized location, movement, and Safety Check data with the American Red Cross, Facebook is helping us sharpen the essential tools we need for targeting communities in need, delivering aid, and fighting disease.
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Connected thermostat maker ecobee is launching a new program that lets users of its devices opt-in to sharing their anonymized usage data as part of a large-scale study regarding home energy efficiency.
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Most activity logs across global databases, as massive as they are, are stored unencrypted without much safeguards to protect data against exposure, nor are they properly secured or anonymized when shared with third parties.
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At its peak, you can hear the distant sound of breathing, and what sounds like the closing of a door, reminders that this music is made by real people, despite their frequently anonymized presentation.
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And while the medical records were allegedly provided to the tech company "de-identified," Google has powerful tools that would enable it to piece its troves of data together to ultimately identify anonymized information.
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Still, the GDPR is a harder implementation for Facebook, as its targeted ads rely on data that's been taken from user profiles, compared to say Google which uses anonymized search results to serve ads.
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This digital approach will also apply more directly to future recruitment efforts; the Army is developing a way to track the anonymized online behaviors of prospects so it can better target them with ads.
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But they say that, at least in the case of the Democrats' emails, Moscow knew it had a sympathetic outlet in WikiLeaks, where intermediaries could drop pilfered documents in the group's anonymized digital inbox.
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One competitor in particular, Ipsy, has significantly overtaken Birchbox in head-to-head market share in the U.S., according to data from Second Measure, a startup that analyzes anonymized debit and credit card data.
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Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL) confirmed to CNN that they are exploring ways to use aggregated, anonymized data to help in the coronavirus effort, after the Washington Post first reported the matter on Tuesday.
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The continued use of text transcripts that may be reviewed by contractors is one sticky point — but the fact that they are text, anonymized and separated from any background audio may appease some critics.
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So the opportunity to aggregate, normalize anonymized data so that companies might be doing better with one aspect can help another company who isn't, and vice versa, is generally very appealing to this audience.
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GM will share the access to some anonymized data, according to CNBC, though Google won't be able to see any information about the way someone drives or a vehicle's maintenance needs, according to Reuters.
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The data looks at September subscribers of Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, DirecTV Now, CBS All Access and SlingTV by Second Measure, a research firm that tracks billions of dollars in anonymized credit card purchases.
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Although the data are anonymized, their approximate location was included in the data based on the " census block" of residence, which in New Orleans is a couple of city blocks in size on average.
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Using this so called "big data" from the use of its map and search products, which is all anonymized, Baidu said it could predict employment and consumer trends and their impact on a company's revenues.
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The IRS had made anonymized returns from the highest earners in America during that time available for public study, and the Times reporters spoke to an anonymous source who had legal access to Trump's returns.
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On their website, Uber recommends all customers request cars from indoors and use in-app resources for their safety, including contacting drivers through an anonymized number and sharing their ride status with friends and family.
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In July, 23andMe also announced it had entered into a four-year partnership with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to potentially develop new drugs and treatments, which will include the sharing of anonymized, de-identified customer DNA.
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It will also offer other anonymized data collected from viewers, including things like on which platforms viewers watched, their favorite characters, bingeing behavior, viewers' locations, anticipation from fans for new episodes, social engagement and more.
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Apple has started using a technology called differential privacy to pull in some anonymized data on how people use their phones, such as your favorite emoji, but it's unclear how broadly that can be applied.
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Norton's policy is to only collect anonymized data on confirmed threats, just like the antivirus product, so the Core won't snoop on your web traffic or use its view of your network to target ads.
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"Most developers we asked about this issue assumed that the information Facebook receives is anonymized," Mobilsicher explains in its report, which explores the types of information shared behind the scenes between the platform and developers.
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JPMorgan has access to millions of credit card transactions on its network, and the anonymized data allows the company to see exactly how consumer behavior changes immediately as a result of the one-hour shift.
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So one of the ideas that's in the white paper is encouraging and incentivizing or regulating in a way that data is anonymized, but giving the independent researchers the ability to look at dark patterns.
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Everywhere on the internet, avatars have helped us control how much information we give of ourselves to others, whether it's been through eBay accounts, World of Warcraft heroes, anonymized Twitter handles, or pseudonymous forum accounts.
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Facebook should still make anonymized data available for academic researchers, like it's doing with Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty's America inequality study, but they need to do more thorough vetting and continuously audit, Ambron added.
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The idea is to give citizens the right to consent to have their genetic data linked to their personalized health records in a way that's not anonymized so that the patients can receive better care.
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The GDPR requires that people be given clearer ideas of what they're consenting to and that their data is anonymized in case it gets out — as data in the digital age is wont to do.
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The app, which is used to track diabetes-related metrics and share anonymized data with other diabetes patients, uses CareKit to help users track their symptoms, set health benchmarks, and share health reports with doctors.
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If the networks can track where users are—anonymously of course, and probably in an aggregated fashion so the data is anonymized—the city and the MTA could track how people are managing, and moving.
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The human genetics company 23andMe, for example, makes some of its money by providing pharmaceutical companies like Genentech and Pfizer with anonymized and aggregated data for research; the company conducts its own studies as well.
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According to inMarket, the data are anonymized so no personal identifying information is gathered, just identification of a device which can determine whether that device, and thus the person carrying it, visits that store again.
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The complaint, which was authored by organizations such as the ACLU, the American Immigration Council, and the Women's Refugee Commission, listed 10 anonymized women who said they experienced astonishing neglect while pregnant in ICE detention.
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The relocation of other types of data processed by Kaspersky Lab products, consisting of several kinds of anonymized threat and usage statistics, is planned to be conducted during later phases of the Global Transparency Initiative.
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The company says Helix allows marketers to use anonymized shopping data from hundreds of members, including one-third of the 100 largest retailers in the US, which marketers can then use to target their ads.
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Why it matters: The research, using precinct-level polling information and a vast database of anonymized cellphone location records, suggests that Americans are less willing to socialize with family members who hold opposing political viewpoints.
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"We're exploring ways that aggregated anonymized location information could help in the fight against Covid-19," said a Google spokesperson, who added the company could, for instance, assist in measuring the impact of social distancing.
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This preliminary map shows movements of people, gold, and known Covid-19 cases, pink highlights, in the Hong Kong region for the week of February 22, 2020, derived from anonymized geolocation data from Facebook users.
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By reviewing the anonymized financial transactions of 6900 million Chase account holders, we found that a medical bill of just a couple hundred dollars is still enough to create real financial problems for America's families.
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"Production of synthetic drugs mostly takes place in warehouses, office buildings, sheds on industrial parks or out in the country," said the 2012 police report, an anonymized summary of about a dozen large-scale investigations.
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Before you throw up your hands in outrage, the information on Hypertrending is aggregated and anonymized (just like it is within Pilgrim), and there are no trails showing the phone's route from one place to another.
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In a statement, company spokesman Jason King said the RADAR program is based on a years-old advertising technique that "uses only aggregated and anonymized information" from other companies that certify they're following consumer protection standards.
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Researchers in the study found even if the list of apps is pseudo-anonymized, with identifiers like app names removed, easily accessible machine learning techniques can determine user traits and identify a user in a dataset.
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The research is based on a representative survey of 2,153 American adults conducted by YouGov in November, as well as an analysis of anonymized desktop web-browsing data collected from participants during a one-week period.
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Your commute, your driving tendencies, cell phone contacts, even your Spotify playlists create an ocean of information that's collected, "anonymized" and sold to any number of interested parties—ranging from city planners to the marketing sector.
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Even if the data remains anonymized — which isn't guaranteed, according to the report — it could still become a powerful tool when placed next to the deep array of surveillance strategies employed by China's president Xi Jinping.
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The company's genetic testing (conducted by a fully certified U.S.-based medical lab partner) is anonymized both at the supplier level and for MagniWare itself, so it never directly ties users to their DNA profile results.
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TC: A big part of your premise is that while gig economy companies have anonymized people as best they can, there's a meaningful segment of services where a stranger or a robot isn't going to work.
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With their names anonymized, you never knew who the other players were, so each competition rewarded smart and careful play that treated every opponent as if they could be one of the best on the planet.
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But the picture is much bigger: The firms making these apps, part of the world known collectively as "fintech," collect, store and then sell their users' anonymized data, an industry previously controlled solely by traditional banks.
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To get insights about all this activity, we have a long-running partnership with Harvard Business School, where we've been analyzing the anonymized fundraising data of startups attempting to raise a Seed or an A round.
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It will take up to 90 days for Facebook to clear out all your information, and it will keep some anonymized data, like logs of when you posted and if there was a comment on it.
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Although Shoemaker was able to convince Mattis that the devices couldn't be safely deployed, Mattis went on to offer Holmes an invaluable opportunity to test her anonymized samples on military blood outside the theater of conflict.
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Specifically, it says that analysis provided to it by Second Measure, a company that analyzes anonymized debit and credit card purchases, found that Brandless had 26.5% fewer customers last month than it did in May 2018.
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The government publishes anonymized data about where each patient went before they were diagnosed on a public website so others can check to see if they've been in contact with a patient and get subsequently tested.
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The implant can store hundreds of gigabytes of data, stream movies or music to connected phones or computers, act as a server for an anonymized chat room or forum, and smuggle encrypted files across international borders.
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Facebook claims it stopped using human workers to review audio clips "more than a week ago," noting that the contractors were previously hired to check whether anonymized conversations were being correctly transcribed on the Messenger app.
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In the study, which Google funded, researchers used anonymized mammograms from more than 25,000 women in the UK and 3,000 women in the US. "We tried to follow the same principles radiologists might follow," Shetty says.
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While individuals will now have more options for how their data is used, the social network will not delete users' internet footprint, and will continue to use people's anonymized data to target them with online advertising.
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If you're a Facebook user, by now you probably know that every "like" and piece of information gets aggregated into a set of anonymized data, which eventually turns into advertising dollars for the social media giant.
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For instance, a study by Carnegie Mellon University from 2000 showed how anonymized U.S. census data could identify some individuals simply by combining a few rare characteristics such as city of birth and current ZIP code.
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The management team includes the company founder and chairman, Charles L. M. Dunlop, who has said his own experience with prostate cancer — now in remission — influenced his decision to make public anonymized information from Ambry's database.
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It's "anonymized" data only on a technicality, as the NYT found it remarkably easy to identify individuals based on the home addresses their devices spent the most time in and where they traveled to most often.
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In October, security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis found that Freedom Hosting II was connected to as many as 20 percent of the sites represented on the part of the dark web accessed through the anonymized Tor network.
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A disclaimer says that a user can remove their data from the application by stopping its use, but because the original app is no longer available, and the users are anonymized, that is no longer the case.
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As of October, Uber and Lyft combined owned nearly 98 percent of the U.S. consumer ride-sharing market, according to new data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of anonymized credit and debit card purchases.
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The data was anonymized, but multiple experts said it could be possible to unmask the identity of users, especially when that data, sold by Avast's subsidiary Jumpshot, was combined with other data that its clients may possess.
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"Human's team is playing a huge role with our mapping data — they expand our mobile play and are processing this anonymized aggregated data into a real-time updating map," Mapbox founder and CEO Eric Gundersen told me.
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The Kickstarter page states that privacy is a "top concern" for the company, and that while no users are recorded and no "personally identifiable data is shared," they can share aggregated and anonymized data to their partners.
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Researchers at Tulane and Michigan State University took leaked Ashley Madison account information, anonymized corporate email addresses and counted them to see if the percentage of employees on Ashley Madison could predict certain attributes of company culture.
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But Sure Genomics says it's worth it; customers who pay the fee will get their entire genome sequenced, and unlike others, the startup says it won't sell anonymized genetic information to third parties to turn a profit.
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The company is getting access to a set of one million anonymized eye scans as part of the research partnership, as well as what it describes as "some related anonymous information about eye condition and disease management".
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Wheeler has resisted calls so far for the commission to release anonymized data on interested parties in the broadcaster portion of the process, known as the "reverse auction," because they have yet to commit to being involved.
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AI matches, and those anonymized game replays from actual human players for training up agents, which is starting out at 65,000 complete matches, and will grow to over 500,000 over the course of the next few weeks.
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The software was able to look at anonymized health records of hospital patients and predict nearly 56% of all serious kidney problems they would encounter, and about 90% of kidney issues so serious that they required dialysis.
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That may sound like a privacy disaster, but Tile said the network was anonymized, meaning others don't actually see my Tiles and I don't see theirs; this is all running in the background of people's Tile apps.
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While the project raises red flags to privacy advocates, executives involved in the talks told The Washington Post that the data would be aggregated and anonymized and would not enable the government to follow specific individuals' movements.
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The data set, which they are now making available to other institutions, contains anonymized information from about 2 million patients at Columbia University, Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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There's just one problem: What should be a giant chunk of anonymized web history data can actually be picked apart and linked back to individual Avast users, according to a joint investigation by PCMag and VICE's Motherboard.
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That includes dark mode (finally), the ability to sign in with Apple using anonymized email addresses, enhanced video editing, audio sharing on AirPods, and revamped apps and abilities for Reminders, Apple Maps, Mail, Memoji, and Siri Shortcuts.
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Heck's company retrofits cars with outward and inward facing cameras and a layer of artificial intelligence that together work to notify drivers of any oncoming traffic, lights or potential obstacles while gathering anonymized data on driving behavior.
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"We leverage transaction data that's created every time the card is tapped, every time a direct debit is made by a customer, in an anonymized way," said Campbell Shaw, London-based head of bank partnerships at Cardlytics.
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William Wang, founder and CEO of Vizio, will become the chairman and CEO of Inscape, the technology built into Vizio TVs that collects anonymized viewer data in real time, which will be spun off as a private company.
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The company also promises that it will be issuing regular software updates through the app, and is collecting anonymized data it will use to make the camera camera smarter over time, perhaps by adding things like parking lines.
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Another German study looking at anonymized user vehicle data found that that 15 minutes' worth of data from brake pedal use could let them identify the right driver, out of 15 options, roughly 90 percent of the time.
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We shouldn't assume that laws favoring consumer privacy are permanent, that Netflix data will always be anonymized to an extent, or that the internet will continue to operate on the terms to which we're accustomed (see: net neutrality).
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" A Strava spokesperson told The Verge that the company is "committed to helping people better understand our privacy settings," and that its map "represents an aggregated and anonymized view of over a billion activities uploaded to our platform.
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We see surreptitious slurping of contact lists, deceptive deletion promises, third-party sharing of poorly anonymized data and other bad practices in apps and services all the time — if the federal government wants to intervene, let's have it.
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Using anonymized data from across its user base, Turbo can then benchmark you against others in your location, age group and life stage to help you improve your debt-to-income ratio and other markers of financial help.
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Looking ahead, Southworth plans to continue developing Thirstie's data technology — not just creating dashboards where brands can view their own customer data, but also doing more to aggregate that data to give brands an anonymized, industry-wide view.
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Those ads are anonymized but individually targeted, violating even the loosest interpretation of section 222, but since Google isn't a carrier (or rather, it doesn't need Fiber to track you), it doesn't have to worry about that clause.
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The company also promises that it will be issuing regular software updates through the app, and is collecting anonymized data that it will use to make the camera smarter over time, perhaps by adding things like parking lines.
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As of February, HelloFresh took home about 33 percent of U.S. meal-kit sales, up from 24 percent last year, according to Earnest Research, a company that analyzes anonymized credit and debit card data from millions of people.
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The interest in home DNA tests, which can reveal genetic variants that may influence the chances of developing diseases including Alzheimer's, is part of a wider drive by drugmakers to tap into a range of anonymized patient data.
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Each sample is linked to the clinical record of the person who submitted it (the records are anonymized) so the team can compare the genotypes of people who responded well or less well to different types of treatment.
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If you are selling to customers that allow you to pool anonymized data or use a model trained on their data with other customers, the AI product will perform better "out of the box" with each subsequent customer.
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The company is able to monitor this data — after it's anonymized to protect the privacy of users — to track spikes in the number of people with fevers in specific areas, which can indicate the spread of the flu.
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With current technology, someone with the right skills can identify a person with as little as four location data points, even with the data otherwise anonymized, so sharing that data openly will pose significant privacy and security concerns.
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Yet as the crisis has continued, countries such as Spain and Poland have gone a step further by creating smartphone apps, which offer an even greater ability to track and monitor people's movements compared to anonymized mobile data.
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Elsewhere in Europe, Italy — which remains the European nation worst hit by the virus — has reportedly sought anonymized data from Facebook and local telcos that aggregates users' movement to help with contact tracing or other forms of monitoring.
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The tool resembles one Palantir built for the UK's top health agency and has raised significant privacy concerns, with sources telling Forbes that, while it uses anonymized data currently, personally identifiable information could be used in the future.
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The Times struck a deal with Jigsaw that we outlined last year: In exchange for The Times's anonymized comments data, Jigsaw would build a machine learning algorithm that predicts what a Times moderator might do with future comments.
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Americans whose communications and information are incidentally collected in broader foreign surveillance typically have their names redacted in intelligence reports, although government officials can request that the anonymized people in surveillance be identified to better consider the intelligence.
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As you may have read on TechCrunch already, the company provides document management for a large portion of startup founders out there, allowing them to share anonymized data with DocSend about how investors are reading their pitch decks.
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Our babysitter scored worst on Disrespectful Attitude, so I looked over the flagged posts, all of which came from her Twitter account (which I should mention was anonymized so that any kids googling their babysitter would not find it).
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Orig3n declined to provide comment to Gizmodo prior to deadline, but it sure seems like the company would have been able to dole out anonymized information from events like the Ravens game to third parties, if it wanted to.
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We analyzed anonymized data from Priceonomics customer Earnest, a loan provider, and examined tens of thousands of loan applicants to see how much people are earning on side-gig platforms and how these platforms stack up against each other.
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Beyond research institutions, the initiative will also tap into the local community through networking events, hackathons, and providing them with shared resources and facilities — including software tools, open source frameworks, anonymized datasets and other A.I. high-performance computing resources.
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The system uses near-real-time analytics to identify known security threats, stored data analytics to compare samples against historical data and big data analytics to identify evolving threats through anonymized datasets gathered from a vast number of clients.
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The committee also called for platforms to be more transparent, urging them to provide bona fide researchers with access to high quality anonymized data to allow for robust interrogation of social media's effects on children and other vulnerable users.
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One of the bigger issues here is that, even though the data was supposed to be anonymized, New Scientist points out that it easily could have been re-identified using the extra Facebook information attached to each personality test.
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"Indeed, in its privacy policy, Google notes that while your individualized data will never link you to your answers or results without your consent, it also says that anonymized data "may be used in aggregate to improve your experience.
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Orange in France is sharing "aggregated and anonymized" mobile phone geolocation data with Inserm, a local health-focused research institute — to enable them to "better anticipate and better manage the spread of the epidemic," as a spokeswoman put it.
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"As a researcher, I would be interested in analyzing aggregated and anonymized location data related to human behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic crises," says Marguerite Madden, director of the Center for Geospatial Research at the University of Georgia.
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We were able to use an invisible overlay during commercials to compile anonymized aggregated ad exposure data, allowing us to analyze the effectiveness of the campaigns in reaching those audiences, and, importantly, opportunities to boost that effectiveness even further.
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Ro has the highest monthly sales of direct-to-consumer rivals Hims, Lemonaid, and Nurx, according to data compiled for Business Insider by Second Measure, which collects information from anonymized credit and debit card transactions from millions of Americans.
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It is possible to determine from the collected data what date and time the anonymized user visited YouPorn and PornHub, and in some cases what search term they entered into the porn site and which specific video they watched.
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Their response: Because our data is either pseudonymized or anonymized, and we do not record of any other pieces of Personal Data about you, it will not be possible for us to locate this data without the cookie value.
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Her own experience prompted her to set up a website called Menstrual Matters, which encourages women to track unexplained symptoms, and collects their anonymized data in the hope of furthering understanding of the role of hormones in chronic illness.
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Orbot brings the power of anonymous browsing and messaging to your Android device, tapping into the open source Tor network to make sure the 1s and 0s you're sending and receiving are encrypted, anonymized and bounced around various locations worldwide.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada plans to work with an AI company called Advanced Symbolics to trawl through more than 4003,000 Canadian social media accounts, according to CBC, but the contracted company says it will only use anonymized, public data.
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Every month, a hundred or so donors drop off anonymized bags of their stool at the bank, where a lab tech in a poop-emoji-emblazoned hair net weighs and scores every sample (on the Bristol stool scale: Google it).
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It doesn't appear that the data will be anonymized because the Journal reports that, after a trial period, insurers will be able to build a customer risk profile on users of the app that will then be used to determine rates.
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The city wants the anonymized data so it can make sure that scooters are being made available to lower-income residents, and to check which companies may be ignoring rules that limit the number of vehicles they are allowed to operate.
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Speaking with Android chief Hiroshi Lockheimer during Google I/O, I was told that the teams responsible for all of these apps make their decisions based on a lot of user research and (anonymized, he was quick to point out) data.
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Haus digitizes that entire experience, letting sellers put their listing on the platform, where buyers and their agents can both post their offers, amend them, and see an anonymized version of other offers that have been made on the property.
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The updated UK data protection legislation will also expand the definition of personal data to include IP addresses, Internet cookies and DNA; and make it a criminal offense to re-identify individuals from anonymized data — either with intent or through recklessness.
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Data collected in 2015 from some 16 billion anonymized emails found that short emails begat shorter replies, so keeping conversations brief to begin with is a handy way of trying to minimize the amount of text you have to wade through.
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Today's vote is a blow to anyone who'd prefer not to put their browsing history on blast, and a major victory for advertisers hungry for all of the de-anonymized personal data that they can vacuum up and dole out.
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While many of the places make promises to keep your identifiable data as secure and private as possible, they can still—and oftentimes do—share anonymized versions of your data to third parties, whether that's for research or for profit.
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Using a machine learning model and datasets that included up to 15 identifiable characteristics—such as age, gender, and marital status—the researchers were able to accurately reidentify 99.98 percent of Americans in an anonymized dataset, according to the study.
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On Tuesday, HackerOne published a wealth of anonymized data to underscore not only the breadth of its own program but highlight the leading types of bugs discovered by its virtual army of hackers who've reaped financial rewards through the program.
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But it does put a lot more data into the hands of potential stalkers, while offering Tinder access to a massive treasure trove of location data – the selling of which, even anonymized and in aggregate, could be a big business.
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Of course, Uber releasing this kind of data publicly is going to raise some eyebrows from privacy advocates, but the company stresses that it's ensuring user privacy by only offering up data where it can be successfully aggregated and anonymized.
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The data is all anonymized and aggregated for privacy safety so advertisers can't tell you specifically saw an ad and then bought something or visited a store, just that one of the people they targeted with the ad campaign did.
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" The privacy policy says it shared identifying personal information with third parties only when "permitted by the User" but also said that it used anonymized data regardless of a user's settings: "We do this primarily for personalizing advertisements and promotions.
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"Well that's a risk people are going to have to take I guess, I can't guarantee that it won't happen so all I can do is properly educate my userbase in how to remain secure and anonymized online," Six said.
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It is not clear when Brussels would be able to create such a database of anonymized mobile phone information when countries are scrambling to combat the coronavirus which has now infected more than 370,000 people worldwide, leaving more than 16,000 dead.
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By aiming to pool large amounts of European mobile data, the Commission is following in the footsteps of national agencies, many of which are already working with carriers to track the spread of the virus through such anonymized digital information.
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What advertisers really want from YouTube is what they already get on the open web: tracking how many times an ad has been shown to a particular anonymized user; where it's happening; and how people are interacting with the ad.
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"Traffic data in Google Maps is refreshed continuously thanks to information from a variety of sources, including aggregated anonymized data from people who have location services turned on and contributions from the Google Maps community," Google said in a statement.
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Apple first announced that it planned to drastically improve its maps in 2018 using a process that involved fleets of Apple Maps vans equipped with cameras and sensors to collect images and distance, as well as anonymized data from iPhones.
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All the major smart assistant developers maintain that audio snippets are fully anonymized before they go out to reviewers and most specifically say that less than one percent of total interactions with smart assistants actually get reviewed by a person.
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For its study, LendingTree, looked at anonymized data from 35,000 business owners in the 50 largest U.S. cities who were seeking funding through its small business marketplace and compared the ages of the founders on their company's date of origination.
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That, combined with the controversy over "unmasking" — a process by which officials can request that the anonymized names of U.S. persons caught up in surveillance be identified for national security purposes — has endangered a clean reauthorization of the law. Rep.
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As it transforms into a media and advertising company, AT&T has publicized it has 170 million direct customer relationships through its wireless phones and satellite TV business DirecTV, and the anonymized data can help advertisers better target their ads.
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Its analysis of anonymized credit and debit card purchases from millions of Americans showed Peloton more than doubling its consumer count while SoulCycle's declined 2400 percent (versus Second Measure's recorded dip of 22017 percent) from Q13 21 to Q2500 225.
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Here are some screenshots from a video of that session: Other than laying out the basic idea behind the episode analytics, the only other detail Boggs provided was that Apple will provide aggregated, anonymized performance data, not pegged to individual users.
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There is no "god mode" for the hotel to see what you're doing with Alexa; all it gets is a dashboard that shows whether or not specific devices are offline (ostensibly an anti-theft measure) and some aggregated, anonymized data from Amazon.
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As a tool like Worklytics gets more and more data across what works — Arkcoll says, again, this is at a team level and anonymized — it can distill down best practices that might work across multiple companies in the same space or even generally.
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Andy Tatem, a professor at the UK's University of Southampton, and colleagues recently used anonymized historical data from smartphones, supplied by the Chinese search company Baidu, to model how the virus may have moved out of Wuhan in the days after it appeared.
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However, anonymized data can be linked to specific individuals by correlating that anonymous cell phone information with the real-world movements of specific individuals, which can be either easily deduced or tracked through other types of public records and publicly available social media.
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Americans who used both Uber and Lyft in the last quarter of 2018 accounted for about a third of the companies' ride-sharing revenue, according to new data from Earnest Research, which analyzes purchases from millions of anonymized US credit and debit cards.
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Obama-era provisions already allowed employers to ask for genetic data collected via voluntary wellness programs, and although that data was legally required to be anonymized, in smaller workplaces it might not be very hard to figure out which data belonged to whom.
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Sidewalk Labs, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet, has developed an analytics platform that cities can use to identify traffic-prone areas and parts of a city that are underserved by public transportation — all by using traffic patterns culled from aggregated, anonymized data.
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The data is collected via Foursquare's existing database of locations (which powers more than 100,000 apps, including Snapchat), as well as anonymized in-store-visit data collected from users of Swarm and Foursquare who have opted in to always-on location sharing.
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Facebook had also considered collecting health information in the past, when it asked major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, as CNBC reported in April, though Facebook said the project had not moved past the planning stage at the time.
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Facebook says the researchers will be given access to "privacy-protected datasets" — though it does not detail how people's data will be robustly anonymized — and says it will not have any right or review or approval on research findings prior to publication.
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Tesla has seen pretty consistent weekly sales from July through September, according to data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes anonymized credit card data and looked at the frequency of $2142,2100 configuration fees Tesla buyers paid shortly before getting their cars.
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The anonymized data is then analyzed using Fever's algorithms to help companies plan events like "The Alice in Wonderland MaddHatter G&T" in Hollywood, the Halloween-themed "House of Spirits" in Los Angeles and "Candlelight Concerts," classical music shows aimed at young audiences.
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Nauto Chief Executive Stefan Heck told Reuters the carmakers and insurer will integrate the technology into their test vehicles and use the aggregate and anonymized data - whether on driving habits, difficult intersections, or traffic congestion - to help develop their autonomous vehicle strategies.
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Nevertheless, the judge and the prosecutors both suggest that Michaud voluntarily gave up his true IP address even while using Tor, because his IP could have been correlated with his anonymized connection to the hidden site by "other means," which they don't specify.
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AMLG: As your user base gets bigger you're going to have a lot of anonymized metadata that will give you insights—such as the more times you interrupt the baby's sleep or the more times you leave it alone, this is the effect.
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As of the end of April, some 235 percent of all Model 2000 deposits in the U.S. had been refunded, according to new U.S. data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of dollars in anonymized credit and debit card purchases.
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Countries have been rapidly ramping up their surveillance of citizens to study and curb the spread of the virus, ranging from mapping anonymized phone location data to highly invasive powers, like allowing the security services to track people's phones without a warrant.
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But this issue where Siri recordings are saved on it servers — albeit anonymized — has revealed a new problem, one that Apple is going to need to do a better job of handling as it shifts more and more of its businesses to services.
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While Envestnet claims that the financial data it collects is secure because it's "anonymized," study after study have showcased how anonymous data isn't really all that anonymous, and users can routinely be easily identified with just a few additional snippets of information.
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It's all anonymized, so you can't see the location of any one individual, but the idea is to give users a window into where the masses are — something that could be useful for the thousands of people who descend on Austin for SXSW.
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Another proposed rule in the bill seeks to grant New Delhi the power to ask any "data fiduciary or data processor" to hand over "anonymized non-personal data" for the purpose of better governance, and inform its policies and deliver services to citizens.
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Since you could potentially envision a scenario in which your robots are monitored from off-site, in a kind of Ghost Work setting, what concerns do you have about the ways in which that work can be kind of anonymized and undercompensated?
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Blue Apron has the largest share of sales among U.S. meal kit companies, but individual consumers are spending more money with its competitors, according to new data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of anonymized debit and credit card purchases.
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Just to be clear, we're here at Vox tonight and we have ... I tweeted out the other day Vox sells data, too, but it keeps it anonymized, it's quite conservative, and we don't give it out to third parties in the same way.
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If a team — the data that Worklytics is anonymized and not on a per-employee basis — is doing well, they can find ways to adapt and help their employees continue to grow and nurture the talent internally with the help of these good managers.
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There's no getting around the fact that Google becomes a more powerful, all-seeing ad engine when it can see specific details about people's spending habits, even if they're anonymized and used in aggregate, as Google says the data it gets from Mastercard is.
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At the same time, despite such studies that show how easy it can be to pick individuals out of a data soup, "anonymized" consumer data sets such as those traded by brokers for marketing purposes can contain orders of magnitude more attributes per person.
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Mobileye's goal is to source data from a range of different vehicle manufacturers, in order to more quickly and accurately build anonymized real-time mapping data that can serve to inform autonomous driving systems more generally, which should in theory lead to safer roads.
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But by pseudo-anonymizing the data, those entities covered by HIPAA can market the information to others in secret—regardless of whether the psuedo-anonymized information could later be paired with other data, such as Facebook's, to create detailed records of an individual's medical history.
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Another recent survey, from the firm Second Measure, used anonymized credit card purchase data to showed that Uber's U.S. market share fell from 84 percent at the beginning of the year to 77 percent, with most of that loss going to its primary competitor, Lyft.
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Nonetheless DeepMind was handed access to the non-anonymized medical records of 1.6M patients without their knowledge or consent, and under loosely defined contract terms that failed to firmly lock down what the company might be able to do with highly sensitive medical data.
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Nearly a quarter of all Model 3 deposits in the US were refunded as of the end of April, according to data released on Monday from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of anonymized purchases to answer real-time questions about consumer behavior.
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The report from Slice Intelligence–which collects its data from hundreds of millions of anonymized e-receipts–found that the $159 AirPods have accounted for more than a quarter of all online wireless headphones revenue since pre-orders for the product launched on December 13.
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The whole process requires providing a lot of your most private information to Google and (probably) pharmaceutical companies who want to see the anonymized data, which — given Google makes much of its sweet, sweet cash by selling data — is not something to take lightly.
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US consumers spent more money on Airbnb last year than they did on Hilton and its subsidiary brands like DoubleTree and Embassy Suites, according to new data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of dollars in anonymized debit and credit card purchases.
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But the company tells me that after writing suggestions are provided to the user, any uploaded text is disassociated from the user's account, and if it's kept in storage for further study, it's anonymized, with names, email addresses, and other identifying information stripped out.
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To do this, LinkedIn announced Wednesday that it's partnering with DataSift, a social data aggregator that will scrape LinkedIn for info about what users are clicking on or talking about, and sell that anonymized, aggregated info to advertisers so they can better target their ads.
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Fitbit says it's able to do this because of the trove of anonymized data it has amassed over the years from users manually logging these activities; the company's software is able to match certain activities with what a wearer is likely doing at that time.
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The regtech firm uses anonymized bank data to improve its functioning and says it is already working with a number of interested bank customers that are willing to share the data because the start-up doesn't actually export any data, just its analytical results.
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The new agreement means that Volkswagen models will begin incorporating the REM system in new models in 2018, which will result in anonymized data gathering that can provide insight not only into road conditions, but also into parking space ability and traffic and congestion information.
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According to Dr. Shaheen, who is heading up the study, Uber has agreed to submit company data, platform data such as anonymized driver and rider information, and will also be issuing a rider survey which aims to collect sociodemographic and attitudinal data from its customers.
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The NYT reports that Voyage had to jump through a few hoops to make the test work — including paying double for insurance and agreeing to hand over anonymized data to its insurer, and providing an equity stake in the company to the Villages itself.
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Since the beginning of 2014, Uber has gone from owning 91 percent* of the U.S. ride-sharing market down to 74.3 percent as of this month, according to data from Second Measure, a research firm that tracks billions of dollars in anonymized credit card purchases.
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People are now spending more on Uber Eats than on any other food delivery service in nine of the 22 most-populous U.S. cities, according to data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of dollars worth of anonymized debit and credit card purchases.
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"Anonymized" location datasets admittedly tend to be something of an oxymoron, but authoritarians may still be technically stymied by the difficulty of deanonymization; and if individual privacy can be preserved even more securely than that via some elegant encryption scheme, so much the better.
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But critics say the business model that led to that heap of data is worrisome, putting at risk the privacy of the most precise identifier a person has — a concern that intensified after studies showed that it's possible to reidentify individuals from anonymized genetic databases.
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A 2017 study from Stanford University found it was possible to identify people from web browsing data, and multiple experts said it would likely be possible to unmask users of antivirus program Avast whose anonymized browsing data was being sold sometimes without their knowledge.
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Many of the files appeared to be anonymized to some degree, though we found evidence of some potentially identifiable information — including physician names and the patient's gender and date-of-birth, even if the patient's name had been scrambled from the file's cover sheet.
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Peloton had 4 percent more U.S. customers than SoulCycle last quarter, more than doubling its subscriber base over the last year, according to new data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of anonymized debit and credit card purchases from all major cards.
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Like other companies that use image sharing to help with medical diagnoses, the data is anonymized Urban 3D: Founder Anielle Guedes spent three years working in favelas in Sao Paulo to understand the housing needs of Brazilians and came away with an idea for this startup.
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The company's previously been under fire in 2014 for its "God View," which Uber would show off at private parties, and included non-anonymized, real-time information about its users (the company also used "God View" on a journalist who was arriving for meetings with Uber).
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In the first quarter of 291, 20183 percent of people who ordered Uber Eats in the US also ordered from one or more of its competitors, according to new data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of dollars in anonymized credit and debit card transactions.
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And the incidents some former employees allege opens a new window into the national reckoning over sexual misconduct, and a look at how the familiar dynamics of power and entitlement play out in an anonymized, disorienting setting that allows some guests to act on their worst instincts.
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Meanwhile, a Wake County district attorney tells WRAL that the data investigators have sought from Google contain only anonymized account numbers without any content included, though it sounds from her comments as though Google has been complicit in supplying further information when forced to do so.
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I read the privacy policy so you don't have to Looking through Huami's (the parent company for Xiaomi wearables / Mi Fit) privacy policy, the company makes it pretty clear that it collects anonymized information like your gender, age, and location to target advertisements with third parties.
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Several companies are vying for a piece of this multi-billion-dollar pie with the offer of new digital services that can scour anonymized patient records from hospitals and university research to optimize how candidates for trials are selected, and how trials are monitored and managed.
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Currently details on uncertainty bands are released three weeks after the fact, with the minutes of the policy meeting; an anonymized matrix tying each policymakers economic forecast to its correlated rate projection takes five years, while full clarity on which dot belongs to which policymaker takes 10.
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We've written about how the company, which is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, has built technology to determine when the same person is using multiple devices — so data from one device can be used (in an anonymized way) to target ads another.
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To address the problem, Google is launching live traffic delays in those markets where the information has been lacking — like Atlanta, GA. To make its predictions, Google is combining the bus route details with the data it's collecting from users who have consented to anonymized data sharing.
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Impax combines sensor data and facial recognition software to gather anonymized data from viewers and unlock capabilities such as serving personalized ads to customers based on their characteristics, or to perform A/B tests on different ads and give feedback to brands about their prevalent demographics.
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When they see a section that piques their interest, they can draw a box around it and SMILY will perform its image-matching magic, comparing what's inside the box to the entire corpus of the Cancer Genome Atlas, a huge database of tagged and anonymized samples.
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I helped create that transit feed that's widely adopted today, and then later in my Google career, I worked in projects on urban mobility and how do you take all the anonymized rich data we had to work on things like traffic congestions or infrastructure planning.
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"The NSA still has the legal authority to query this data" Using Google Search and paid databases like Intelius, researchers were able to collect names for the vast majority of phone numbers, making it clear that, despite its legal status, the data is far from anonymized.
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As for whether Modern Fertility is also interested in selling that anonymized data as has happened at genetic testing outfits like Ancestry and Vechery's former employer, 23andMe, Vechery insists that it will not — that the information will instead be used to inform the company's product development.
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Cooler Screens makes a lot of bold claims throughout its first big trade publication profile, including that, since the doors don't store any data and the data is anonymized, there is no reason to disclose to in-store customers that they are being watched and manipulated.
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Law enforcement famously used crime-scene DNA that was shared with a genealogical research site to track down a suspect in the Golden State killer case, even though he never used a DNA test himself, demonstrating that even anonymized data can be used to identify people.
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Airbnb says the payment's purpose is open-ended.) In May, Airbnb agreed to turn over data in response to subpoena requests from New York City officials, including partially anonymized host and reservation data on more than 17,000 listings, after years of hostilities (and multiple ongoing lawsuits).
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Real transparency — say, 'in exchange for this free software we are going to log which sites you visit and sell an anonymized version of that data to third parties that use it to see how popular certain products or trends are' — would certainly turn some people off.
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Still, the regular urine tests they subjected him to proved their efforts were for naught: D.P. was "unable to refrain from JUULing," according to a federal complaint, which anonymized the teenager and was filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York last month.
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Currently details on uncertainty bands are released three weeks after the fact, with the minutes of the policy meeting; an anonymized matrix tying each policymaker's economic forecast to its correlated rate projection takes five years, while full clarity on which dot belongs to which policymaker takes 10.
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Examples of data sets available via the myPersonality project Examples of data sets available via the myPersonality project A Facebook representative told me they were concerned that the vetting process for getting access to the data set was too loose, and furthermore that the data was not adequately anonymized.
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Medical information is protected in the U.S. under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), but Hu-manity CEO and co-founder Richie Etwaru says that this information is being sold by a number of third parties in an anonymized fashion today, whether we know it or not.
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In the same Privacy menu, you can choose whether or not to send anonymized diagnostics and usage information back to Apple, used to root out bugs, get an idea of how people are interacting with iOS, and so on (tap Diagnostics & Usage Data to see the actual data itself).
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But who the research institutions, hospitals, and doctors share that data with is up to them (within the constraints of laws like HIPAA.) And collected data is typically "anonymized" by companies like Sage Bionetwork, removing any possible identifiable information before sending the data to the institution conducting the study.
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Women startup founders own 39 cents for every dollar of equity a male founder owns, according to a new study based on aggregated and anonymized data from more than 6,000 U.S.-based companies; female employees at startups own 47 cents for every dollar of equity a male employee owns.
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Realm started collecting anonymized data on which platforms its developers were targeting in order to figure out where it should place its own priorities in terms of features to add, but more recently recognized it can serve as a proxy, more broadly speaking, for what developers are finding interesting.
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Use a credit card or a traditional payment service and the odds are your purchase will end up in an anonymized database, used to target you the next time advertisers want to find someone who's bought a burrito, a pair of jeans, or a lamp in the last month.
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They studied anonymized data from a total of 28,416 adults of European ancestry living in the US. "Having both disease information and Neanderthal DNA present in these individuals enabled us to test for relationships between the two," said doctoral student Corinne Simonti, the first author of the paper.
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Worst states: California D.C. Florida Illinois Michigan New York Arizona Louisiana Nevada Texas Best states: Vermont New Hampshire West Virginia Wyoming Maine South Dakota Massachusetts Virginia Maryland North Carolina Methodology: Zendrive aggregated and anonymized 3.8 million drivers, 2,222 counties, and 75,000 schools in every state in April 2017.
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The working assumption of the policy documents is that as long as we are dealing with an anonymized data set, there is no need to require the active consent of individuals whose data is contained in it, but only to allow deletion from the data set upon explicit request.
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"In the coronavirus context, researchers and nonprofits can use the maps, which are built with aggregated and anonymized data that people opt in to share, to understand and help combat the spread of the virus," Laura McGorman, policy lead of Facebook's Data for Good effort, said in a statement.
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The data they're using doesn't include personally identifiable information like a user's name, but rather an anonymized alphanumeric ID. Still, as a New York Times investigation into this type of data showed late last year, it's pretty easy to figure out who someone is based solely on their location.
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They anonymized résumé reviews to remove potential bias that filters out women or people of color, they relied on software to comb their job listings for words that may target some people over others, and they required more than one diverse candidate be represented on every interview slate.
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Per CNBC, Facebook's head of health research Dr. Freddy Abnousi—the Facebook executive behind the company's canceled plan to share anonymized health insights with medical providers like hospitals—still thinks that combining the kind of information Facebook has on its users with medical records could be a health care boon.
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When asked if Google might eventually connect Waze Local to its other ad products, Phillips acknowledged that Waze does share some anonymized data with Google around things like traffic, but he said, "Our focus is to build this platform for small and medium businesses … We're happy with the roadmap as is."
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The complaint pointed out that aside from the breach of privacy in sharing intimate data without a patient's consent, that even if it was in some way anonymized, the tools available to a powerful tech corporation make it pretty easy for them to reverse engineer that information and identify a patient.
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Mobileye's Road Experience Management (REM) platform scored another big win today: Signing up Nissan, the third major automaker to enter an agreement with the company to help build and use its high-precision road maps, which are updated in real time using anonymized, crowdsourced data from cars on the road.
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Goldman Sachs is the partner for the card, but it absolutely cannot use the data it gathers on transactions via Apple Card for market maps, as chunks of anonymized data it can offer partners about spending habits or any of the typical marketing uses credit card processors get up to.
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Culture Amp is just one of the companies aiming to help employees anonymously express how they feel about their place of work, but the Melbourne company is using the anonymized employee survey data from thousands of customers to help them learn from each other and chart which initiatives made a dent.
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However, in the past year, the US market share between Lyft and Uber has remained rather steady, with Uber accounting for 70 percent of credit card sales in October and Lyft claiming about 30 percent, according to Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of anonymized credit and debit card purchases.
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While a lot of the data collected is the same, Apple differs from Google by making much of it anonymized or kept on your iPhone (and not sent back to Apple)—so while your location can be tracked on iOS, for example, Apple itself doesn't know where you are, only your phone does.
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A lot of the data that gets sent back to Apple, including search queries and map locations, is aggregated and anonymized, though not all of it—if you're using Find My iPhone, for example, Apple needs to know who you are and where your phone is so it can help reunite you.
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The study authors, which include some researchers from DNA test company 23andMe, studied anonymized genetic data taken from previous or ongoing studies, such as the UK Biobank, as well as from people who have permitted their DNA to be used for research, such as those who signed up for genetic testing from 23andMe.
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The goal would be to figure out how to make data and interfaces available to researchers in ways that ensure confidentiality and ethics, he said, "but also acknowledges the need for reasonable constraints," given how easy it is for governments, businesses, or others to identify users in data, even when it's anonymized.
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While there's still no great way to donate your data after death, existing laws and regulations allow for researchers to use electronic health records of people who have died: in the United Kingdom, for example, scientists can request permission to access and use anonymized health records from the National Health Service (NHS).
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As is pointed out whenever the does-Facebook-sell-data debate rears its head — this feels like the third or fourth time we've had it this year — renting access to anonymized data sets, as Facebook does, is a much better business than the one-time purchases and subscriptions offered by data brokers.
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The key difference with Value Voting is that is allows allies to share anonymized voter data; includes elections results and turnout predictions so that users know their potential influence over a politician (voters/turnout needed to win); and its helps users influence 'down ballot' races – State Senate, State House, and Board of Education.
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LinkedIn Will Allow Economics Researchers to Mine Its Data LinkedIn is giving approved researchers access to anonymized data to help them study the economy, Jeremy Kahn reports: The initiative, called the LinkedIn Economic Graph Program, is an expansion of an earlier collaboration with outside economics researchers that the company created in 2015.
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In New York City, Uber has been telling its customers to email the city government over the Taxi and Limousine Commission's request for Uber to share anonymized passenger data with the agency; privacy experts have mixed feelings about the city's proposal, and Uber has been vocal about the privacy risks of the initiative.
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"Neighborhood Keeper represents an innovative and highly beneficial approach to providing security to smaller providers, as well as value to the entirety of the community, by sharing completely anonymized insights from threats detected in [operations technology and incident command system] networks," Robert M. Lee, the CEO of Dragos, said in a release.
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Posting an un-anonymized video of a person suspected of a crime—not a convicted criminal, but a still-innocent person in the eyes of the law—and then imploring users to snitch, is another step toward what Amazon's really selling: an always-on surveillance state as a way to placate our fears.
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Google will pause listening to EU voice recordings while regulators investigate Colin Lecher reports that Google is having trouble in Germany over its usage of anonymized audio samples to improve voice recognition: Google has agreed to stop listening in and transcribing Google Assistant recordings for three months in Europe, according to German regulators.
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It outlines how the patient data would be anonymized in order to protect patients' privacy; however, the lawsuit alleges that because the university gave Google data on the date and time patients signed into health services, Google could easily pair that information with location data it gathers from users' smartphones to identify people.
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It also includes a new feature called GoDaddy Insight, which relies on anonymized data — aggregated from all the businesses using GoDaddy and GoCentral — to provide entrepreneurs with a score on how their online presence and marketing compares to similar businesses, as well as an action plan recommending the next steps for improvement.
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The report notes that even though personal data sent to advertisers is anonymized and not tied to a phone number or unique identifier, the Times found it easy to figure out a person's identity based on their specific daily routines—like where you sleep each night, your morning commute, or even your frequent haunts.
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Like Google, Apple says it will gather data from users to help flesh out its maps, though the company apparently put a strong emphasis on privacy, claiming that Apple will never record start and ending location data, and that any info Apple does use is carefully anonymized to prevent sensitive info from leaking out.
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No, a Google engineer isn't looking at all of your photos or listening to all of your Assistant commands in a dark room in Mountain View, but those anonymized data points are used to feed Google's machine-learning algorithms, which in turn are used to identify every photo of your mom in your camera roll.
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But in the age of AI, as the data gathered becomes more and more personal — not just your anonymized browsing habits, but pictures of you, your family, your personal moments — and the systems it creates are more and more controlling, it's perhaps time to ask ourselves, once again, are we giving away too much?
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Because the BAT integrates with a browser, a value for advertising slots can be calculated based on precise metrics for the time spent on the page, ad size in proportion to the content, and a detailed profile of the user's tastes—potentially sensitive information, but which Brave says is anonymized and never leaves the device.
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Kosinski was deputy director at Cambridge University's Psychometrics Centre at the time and, along with another professor at the department, David Stillwell, had already worked on a project drawing links between anonymized Facebook profiles and responses from personality surveys — with that data also obtained via a Facebook app — aiming to connect interests with voting tendencies.
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In a move that is at once sleazy and ridiculous, PornHub and its tech arm MindGeek announced a partnership with the creators of VergeCoin (XVG), an anonymized cryptocurrency in the vein of Monero that is currently trading at 7 cents, down from an all-time high of about 26 cents during a recent pump.
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In the Moorfields project, where the data is being anonymized (or pseudonymized), NHS information governance rules allow for data to be shared for medical research purposes without obtaining patient consent (although NHS patients can opt out of supplying their data to all research projects) — so long as the relevant Health Research Authority clears the project.
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Over the weekend, a Canadian software engineer named Evan Andersen posted about an unfortunate bug he'd experienced in which some porn imagery leaked from within a Google Chrome "incognito" session—the browser's mildly anonymized setting in which cookies, tabs, and search histories are left unsaved—to a loading screen within the game Diablo III.
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And although CityBridge calls this information "anonymized" because it doesn't include your name or email address — the system instead records a unique identifier for each device that connects — when millions of these data points are collected and analyzed, such data can be used to track people's movements and infer intimate details of their lives.
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The US government is also in discussions with the tech industry to use Americans' location data to track the spread of the coronavirus, with Google (GOOGL) and Facebook (FB) confirming they are exploring ways to share aggregated, anonymized data rather than location data of specific users, a point they took great pains to emphasize.
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While reversing the FCC's privacy rules will technically just maintain the status quo — internet providers have actually been able to sell your web browsing data forever (it's just not a thing we think about all that much) — they were about to lose permission to keep doing it, unless they got explicit consent or anonymized the info.
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While taboo and anti-moral ideologies festered in the dark corners of the anonymous Internet, the de-anonymized social media platforms, where most young people now develop their political ideas for the first time, became a panopticon, in which people lived in fear of observation from the eagle eye of an offended organizer of public mass shaming.
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Some developers will think it's entirely legitimate to gather a bit of anonymized user data in return for a free app—it's what Google does with Gmail after all—but they should absolutely be telling you about this in the terms and conditions for the add-on, so check the small print and the extension description carefully.
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But it could modulate the other ways in which it asks us for our trust — perhaps deciding, as Google did, to leave the camera out of its home speaker; or not to put on stage an executive soliciting our most personal information, however well anonymized, while the investigation into a data breach affecting millions is still underway.
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This stands in contrast to the model of other tech giants like Google or Facebook that insert an interstitial layer of monetization strategy on top of that relationship in the forms of application of personal information about you (in somewhat anonymized fashion) to sell their platform to advertisers that in turn can sell to you better.
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The architect of the new service is Dr. Freddy Abnousi, the head of the company's healthcare research, who was previously linked to an earlier skunkworks initiative that would collect anonymized hospital data and use a technique called "hashing" to match the data to individuals that exist in both data sets — for research, according to CNBC reporting.
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Money advice site Earnest determined the most and least expensive cities for renters across the U.S. by analyzing anonymized data spanning three years from tens of thousands of verified loan applicants in the 100 most populous cities in the U.S. The data looked at all types of renters, including those who live alone and share with roommates.
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In addition, the app saves up to 30 minutes of footage from each ride, offering users the utility of a free dash cam in case they get in an accident and need video for an insurance claim, while providing some rich anonymized data for the company to build up high-quality mapping data it can sell to partners.
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For example, if a 17th SaaS business with a similar business model to other Pilot companies signs up, they could down the line take a look at their info and spot potential discrepancies based on anonymized trend data picked up from other comparables in the industry — or do a better job of spotting inefficiencies or others.
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In the wake of revelations that the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users was used by data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2016 for political purposes, reports indicate Facebook will contribute raw, anonymized data to a new Social Data Initiative via what is described as an independent, transparent and peer–reviewed process.
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Informed by data released publicly, SEC filings and investor databases — as well as anonymized and aggregated info from Space Angels' own due diligence process and portfolio company management — Anderson is among the best-positioned people on either the investment or the operator side to weigh in on the current and future state of the space startup industry.
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However in an email seen by TechCrunch, TfL has now turned down an FOI request asking for it to release the "full dataset of anonymized data for the London Underground Wifi Tracking Trial" — arguing that it can't release the data as there is a risk of individuals being re-identified (and disclosing personal data would be a breach of UK data protection law).
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As the Washington Post noted in April as the secretive hospital-partnership project was put on hold, its approach to soliciting the data suggested that it was trying to acquire it without explicit opt-in consent:Even setting aside the voluminous evidence showing that true anonymization of data is virtually impossible, Facebook's stated intent was never to leave the data anonymized.
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We covered TfL's wi-fi tracking beta back in 2017, when we reported that despite claiming the harvested wi-fi data was "de-personalised", and claiming individuals using the Tube network could not be identified, TfL nonetheless declined to release the "anonymized" data-set after a Freedom of Information request — saying there remains a risk of individuals being re-identified.
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The article lays bare what the privacy-conscious have suspected for years: The apps on your smartphone are tracking you, and that for all the talk about "anonymization" and claims that the data is collected only in aggregate, our habits are so specific—and often unique—so that anonymized identifiers can often be reverse engineered and used to track individual people.
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Anonymized (or "annihilated" as she put it in a recent interview with VICE) by her own veil, and putting her words in the mouths of others, Anohni's gesture seemed to say that these songs are laments for everyone—that the power of the words lay not only in the words themselves, but the impact they make when uttered in unison.
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In a conference call with telecoms executives, Thierry Breton, Europe's internal market commissioner, called on the companies to hand over anonymized and aggregated data from people's mobile phones to track how the virus was spreading, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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The Times said that it got the data from anonymous whistleblowers concerned about this vulnerability and a lack of regulations, and that it took only minutes to turn a massive anonymized data set — with 50 billion location "pings" from the phones of more than 12 million people in the US related to their movements in 2016 and 2017 — into specific information on Trump.
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" Asked why, if it's confident the London Underground wi-fi data is truly anonymized it's also refusing to release the dataset to the public as asked (by a member of the public), TfL's spokesman tells us: "What we're saying is we're not releasing it because you could say that I know that someone was the only person in the station at that particular time.
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" When I asked Kromtech Security Team what reason Ashley Madison had for not revoking the automatic key exchange feature, head of communications Bob Diachenko said that it was a low-to-medium threat for the average user, "but could be high for those with explicit photos, those that were involved in the prior leak, or those that can be de-anonymized via pictures or username.
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ThreatMetrix, which has been around since 2005 and has made some acquisitions of its own, is a digital identity platform that uses a number of factors (over 250 in all) like device information, location, anonymized ID information and behavioral analytics to determine that individuals logging into a service are who they say they are, and if not, to identify when the behavior is looking abnormal and risky.
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One of the things in the New York Times article, which we didn't really dig into about location, is that in theory, if you have a consistent identifier and that consistent identifier over specific timestamps goes to lots of different places, you could in theory re-identify that anonymized individual because you know where they work and they live and they were at a certain place.
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" According to the definition adopted by the city, a technology has surveillance capability if it can be used "to collect, capture, transmit, or record data that could be used to surveil, regardless of whether the data is obscured, de-identified, or anonymized before or after collection and regardless of whether technology might be used to obscure or prevent the capturing of certain views or types of information.
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Contained in the data set will be anonymized information on things like the age, gender, and political views of the people who clicked those links; what kind of device they used to access them; which links they viewed, shared, and reshared (including the ones they shared without clicking on); along with the number of likes and loves and wows and so-ons that the posts received.
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"We're taking everything from anonymized smartphone data from billions of miles of trips, sensor data, and bringing that into a platform that will give both the public and private parties and government the capacity to actually understand the data in ways they haven't before," said Daniel L. Doctoroff, Sidewalk's chief executive, who is a former deputy mayor of New York City and former chief executive of Bloomberg.
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The thorny issue of tracking of location data without risking individual privacy is very neatly illustrated via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request asking London's transport regulator to release the "anonymized" data-set it generated from a four week trial last year when it tracked metro users in the UK capital via wi-fi nodes and the MAC address of their smartphones as they traveled around its network.
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"Our results suggest that even heavily sampled anonymized datasets are unlikely to satisfy the modern standards for anonymization set forth by GDPR [Europe's General Data Protection Regulation] and seriously challenge the technical and legal adequacy of the de-identification release-and-forget model," the researchers from Imperial College London and Belgium's Université Catholique de Louvain write in the abstract to their paper, which has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
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The system described by the Post would potentially use aggregated, anonymized data provided by tech companies to determine how likely it is that the disease will spread between different regions in the US.While Zuckerberg said Facebook is not part of the specific conversation around sharing users' location data with the government, the company does have a tool meant to help track the movements and demographics of people affected by a disease outbreak.
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So even if you start from the premise of carrier data being anonymized, as Teralytics says is the case here, a system could be built that tracks an unnamed user's location and displays a trace from a street address to a commercial address and back again twice a day, for example, and the person looking at that data might easily infer they're seeing a person's home and workplace — and then it's potentially very easy to re-identify that individual.
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The digitization of that data takes two days, after which users log in to Sophia Genetics' platform and load in the raw data, which is transferred to the company's datacenters ("in an anonymized way", according to Camblong; he also confirms that the platform prompts hospitals to confirm it has patients' consent for transferring their data to be processed by a third party) — and then the startup's AI algorithms get to work to pull out unique genetic variants.
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In Europe the government may not simply use mobile phone data and movement data — they have to anonymize it first and this is what, in Germany and other European jurisdictions, happened — including the UK — that anonymized mobile phone data has been handed over to organizations who start analyzing that data to get a better view of how the people behave, how the people move and what they need to do in order to restrict further movement.
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Among the information sent to Facebook: your device IP address and type, the time of use and your advertising ID. While the data is supposedly anonymized, the advertising ID makes it extremely easy for bigger companies like Facebook to identify and link third-party app information to existing Facebook users (if you've logged into Facebook on your phone or downloaded the app, Facebook can theoretically match that advertising ID with the ID transmitted through the SDK).
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