In our blog we provide you with industry insights on privacy, anonymization, analytics and of course information about our solution Aircloak Insights.
February 4, 2019
There is a wide range of data anonymization tools available. The selection should be carefully made according to the purpose for which you want to anonymize your data. The most important questions you have to ask yourself is: What programming environment are you using? Does it have to work in a specific one like R? What anonymization methods do you … read more
January 31, 2019
No traffic jams, perfectly coordinated bus and tram timetables, no environmental pollution, less stress and a significantly improved quality of life. This is how we imagine the city of the future! In Smart Cities, specific challenges, especially in the areas of transport planning, energy efficiency and waste management, are solved with the help of data analysis. Mobility data of residents … read more
January 21, 2019
Media outlets such as Motherboard and the NY Times are currently reporting cases in which private individuals in the USA have been able to buy mobility data from so-called data brokers, making it possible to determine the location of any telephone number or person. The advance of data-driven business models is unstoppable – do we simply have to get used … read more
January 14, 2019
Which company would not like to get significantly improved insights into the market with detailed data and thus optimize its products and services? In most cases, the corresponding data is already available, but its use is often restricted for data protection reasons. Anonymization is used when you want to use a data set with sensitive information for analysis without compromising … read more
December 18, 2018
2018 was a very exciting year that demonstrated clearly how our society is changing in the context of digitisation and the ever increasing relevance of data. In March, the Cambridge Analytica & Facebook scandal was published by various media, in May the world’s most modern data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation came into effect, posing major challenges and … read more
December 11, 2018
This article got first released on CPO Magazine (or Chief Privacy Officer Magazine). It provides news, insights and resources for data protection, privacy and cyber security leaders. “Data is the new oil” – not only is this an overused expression with over 1 billion hits on Google but it is also a rather inaccurate comparison. If you find a source of oil … read more
October 17, 2018
One of the two successful attacks from the first round of the Aircloak bounty program was from researchers Aloni Cohen and Kobbi Nissim from MIT and Georgetown University respectively. Our fix for the attack was deployed in Aircloak’s release 18.3 on July 27th. Aloni and Kobbi had asked Aircloak and myself not to reveal the details of the attack so … read more