In our blog we provide you with industry insights on privacy, anonymization, analytics and of course information about our solution Aircloak Insights.
August 24, 2020
From time to time a participant in a Diffix bounty program runs a successful attack and receives a payment. One might take this to mean that individuals in the databases of organizations that use Aircloak data anonymization were at serious risk. This is not necessarily the case, and so far has never been the case. The Diffix bounty program … 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
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 Aircloakโs 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
May 4, 2018
The attack by the scientists at Imperial College London is purely theoretical. It was never actually carried out and based on our measurements on real databases, the conditions under which it could work are so rare as to be practically non-existent. … read more
July 5, 2017
Aircloak approved for GDPR-level anonymity for all data types and use cases by French data protection authority At Aircloak weโre fully aware that the selection of solutions that impact how a customer manages regulatory compliance, such as around GDPR with its stringent requirements and potentially very high fines, involves a lot of trust. Trust that is typically built over time … read more