A hash is kinda trash. Or, more precisely, not only will hashing data not anonymize it, but regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, consider hashed identifiers to be personal information.

“Salting” refers to the insertion of a random value (e.g., a number or a letter) into personal data before that data is hashed. Whether personal information that has undergone salting and hashing is ...

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Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Hashing personal data for privacy-safe collaboration is increasingly challenged. Recent demonstrations reveal hashed identifiers from predictable sources can be reversed quickly using computation and ...

Data centers must be purpose-built to handle current and future workloads - evolving rapidly and driven by high volumes of end users, application types, cluster nodes, and overall data movement in the ...

Back in early February, Path met with some serious backlash when Arun Thampi revealed that the social app was uploading address book data without explicit permission from its users. Path responded by ...

Hashing refers to the process of using an algorithm to transform data of any size into a unique fixed sized output (e.g., combination of numbers). To put it in layman’s term, some piece of information ...