Data Privacy

If enhancing privacy by creating a giant database of people’s DNA sounds counterintuitive, the group’s point is that it’s already too late to prevent mass exposure.

Performance tuning queries on production databases happens, but it absolutely, positively shouldn't. Here's another, more efficient and safe, path to database optimization.

Oasis Labs says its cloud platform on blockchain architecture will help developers build privacy into their apps, while giving users more control over their personal data.

Blockchain, which stores data in patterns that can't be modified, may have promise in healthcare privacy and security, says an expert.

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The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission resolves claims that Uber misrepresented that consumer information was secure.

In the U.S., only 5% of business IT departments so far are preparing for the EU's upcoming privacy rules, which go into effect in May 2018.

(Bloomberg) -- It's likely that you're among Facebook's now 2 billion users. But you might not have known just how much information you're sharing with the outside world when you use the social media platform. Follow the...