Dropbox has denied claims that researchers obtained non-anonymized data from users of the cloud file storage service. A study by Northwestern University researchers posted Friday, and co-bylined with ...

Anonymized data sets are a joke. And, as a newly published study shows, the joke just so happens to be on you. From your credit card purchases to your medical records to your online browsing history, ...

Thanks to the near-complete saturation of the city with sensors and smartphones, we humans are now walking, talking data factories. Passing through a subway turnstile, sending a text, even just ...

News publishers have forced a rare look inside the black box of generative AI, winning access to 20 million anonymized ...

Merely existing in the modern world means giving up a wealth of your information to countless institutions and services. While many of the places make promises to keep your identifiable data as secure ...

When most of us think of how the concept of “data” has been skewered by the press, we’re probably thinking about an app’s location data tipping off our home address, or apps like Grindr tipping ...

Data collected by Apple to improve its voice-driven Siri service is anonymized and kept on the company's servers for up to two years before it is discarded. The disclosure was made by Apple to Wired ...