Data Privacy

  • Vanderbilt University

    Study of Google data collection comes amid increased scrutiny over digital privacy

    The study for Digital Content Next found much of the data Google collects from Android-enabled devices happens when the user is not interacting with Google products. (Illustration/Pamela Saxon) Google may not know whether you’ve been bad or good but it knows when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake. If you use… Read More

    Nov. 1, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    Study applies game theory to genomic privacy

    It comes down to privacy — biomedical research can’t proceed without human genomic data sharing, and genomic data sharing can’t proceed without some reasonable level of assurance that de-identified data from patients and other research participants will stay de-identified after they’re released for research. Data use agreements that carry penalties… Read More

    Jan. 13, 2017