Personal Data: Thinking inside the box - Haddadi et al. 2015. This paper got some coverage in the press recently with a story in the British newspaper "The Guardian" headlined "Fightback against internet giants' stranglehold on personal data starts here." Amongst the authors we also find Jon Crowcroft (who wrote yesterday's paper 'On the duality ... Continue Reading

RAPPOR: Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response - Erlingsson et al. 2014 The RAPPOR paper made a brief appearance on HN a few weeks ago, and addresses the question of privacy preservation while collecting data - for example, in order to improve a service offering. Crowdsourcing data to make better, more informed decisions is becoming increasingly ... Continue Reading