A Critical Analysis of the Medibank Health Data Breach and Differential Privacy Solutions

This paper critically examines the 2022 Medibank health insurance data breach, which exposed sensitive medical records of 9.7 million individuals due to unencrypted storage, centralized access, and the absence of privacy-preserving analytics. To address these vulnerabilities, we propose an...

Automakers Move to Address Privacy Concerns

Several automakers have agreed on a set of privacy principles that they say will govern the way that they handle personal information generated by vehicles, geolocation data and other sensitive information that is being produced by in-car computers and networks. The principles are the result of...

Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

REDMOND, Wash.–If one were to draw up a list of the most challenging jobs in the technology industry, chief privacy officer at Microsoft likely would be pretty near the top of it. For a company with the size and scope of Microsoft, the volume of potential privacy issues is nearly endless, and if...

Targeted Advertisements (Get Used To Them)

Nobody likes to think that their actions, interests and expressions on a fun, social network like Google+ might be somehow diverted into the database of some giant advertising firm and used to push them products. But, when you get right down to it, that’s how Google makes money. Rather than stick...