Singling out People without Knowing Their Names - Behavioural Targeting, Pseudonymous Data, and the New Data Protection Regulation

Information about millions of people is collected for behavioural targeting, a type of marketing that involves tracking people's online behaviour for targeted advertising. It is hotly debated whether data protection law applies to behavioural targeting. Many behavioural targeting companies say...

Accountable, Scalable and DoS-Resilient Secure Vehicular Communication

Paramount to vehicle safety, broadcasted Cooperative Awareness Messages CAMs and Decentralized Environmental Notification Messages DENMs are pseudonymously authenticated for security and privacy protection, with each node needing to have all incoming messages validated within an expiration...

[updated]Ransomware money laundering operation disrupted, founder arrested

The US Department of Justice DOJ has released information about the arrest of Anatoly Legkodymov, the founder and majority owner of a cryptocurrency exchange called Bitzlato, on money laundering charges. Legkodymov, a Russian national who lives in China, is accused of processing over $700 million...