on differential privacy, privacy design, privacy engineering, web browser, privacy sandbox

Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting

While I once hoped 2017 would be the year of privacy, 2024 closes on a troubling note, a likely decrease in privacy standards across the web. I was surprised by the recent Information Commissioner’s Office post, which criticized Google’s decision to introduce device fingerprinting for advertising purposes from…

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on differential privacy, privacy engineering, privacy design

On privacy and algorithmic fairness of machine learning and artificial intelligence

When big chunks of user data collected on an industrial scale continue to induce constant privacy concerns, the need to seriously address problems of privacy and data protection with respect to data processing is important as never before. Data is increasingly fed into machine learning models (i.e. “artificial intelligence”…

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