Search Engines Testify on User Privacy
February 13th, 2009From a press release by Microsoft, it appears that the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party held its hearings on search engine user privacy last Tuesday. Microsoft made this nice overview of the state of anonymisation. It’s good to note that de-identification is not a very meaningful concept under European data protection law. It means some kind of privacy by design but not anonymity.
February 15th, 2009 at 12:26 am
[...] techncial details about how the companies enforce these policies have been made public, and as Joris van Hoboken reminds us, de-identification is the the same as anonymization. There’s good work to be done to confirm, [...]