Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Get law enforcement out of biospecimen authentication

June 18, 2022

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo5386

Not sure how meaningful this proposal is given how trivial it is to identify cell lines and individuals via sequencing. Moreover, it seems like it is trying to create “artificial silos” between research and law enforcement communities.

DEBRA J. H. MATHEWS AND NATALIE RAM
SCIENCE 16 Jun 2022
Vol 376, Issue 6599
pp. 1274-1276
DOI: 10.1126/science.abo5386

How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really? – The New York Times

June 18, 2022

QT:{{”
Mark Gerstein, a professor of bioinformatics at Yale University, found in the research implications for data privacy. He recently stored a genome on a private blockchain, which allowed for a secure and tamperproof record. But he noted that in a public setting, as with Bitcoin’s blockchain, a data set’s size and subtle patterns made it susceptible to breaches, even as the data remained immutable. (Ms. Blackburn wasn’t tampering with the Bitcoin blockchain’s records.)

“That’s the amazing thing about big data,” Dr. Gerstein said. “If you have a big enough data set, it starts to leak information in unexpected ways.” Even more so when data from different sources are connected, he said: “When you combine one data set with another to make a bigger data set, nonobvious linkages can arise.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/science/bitcoin-nakamoto-blackburn-crypto.html

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The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending – The New York Times

June 9, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/technology/data-privacy-laws.html

Liked the article & esp. the quote: “The core idea of digital sovereignty is that the digital exhaust created by a person…should be stored inside the country where it originated, or at least handled in accordance with privacy & other standards set by a government.”

However, shouldn’t a person (“a digital sovereign”?) have the right to store their data where they see fit – e.g. in another country from where they are?

It’s Too Late to Protect Your Genetic Privacy. The Math Explaining Why. – WSJ

June 5, 2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-obscure-math-exposing-our-genetic-secrets-11653039002

HE library links

May 22, 2022

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04623-2

Perspective
Published: 11 May 2022
Transitioning organizations to post-quantum cryptography
David Joseph, Rafael Misoczki, Marc Manzano, Joe Tricot, Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga, Olivier Lacombe, Stefan Leichenauer, Jack Hidary, Phil Venables & Royal Hansen
Nature volume 605, pages237–243 (2022)

new paper on post-quantum cryptography (PQC):

Interesting article on NFT and genomics

May 22, 2022

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01642-3

18 June 2021
How scientists are embracing NFTs
Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics?
Nicola Jones

an article discussing combining NFT (a hype which is related to blockchain) and genomics data.

An extreme form of encryption could solve big data’s privacy problem | New Scientist

May 21, 2022

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433810-300-an-extreme-form-of-encryption-could-solve-big-datas-privacy-problem/

HE library links

May 15, 2022

Perspective
Published: 11 May 2022
Transitioning organizations to post-quantum cryptography
David Joseph, Rafael Misoczki, Marc Manzano, Joe Tricot, Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga, Olivier Lacombe, Stefan Leichenauer, Jack Hidary, Phil Venables & Royal Hansen
Nature volume 605, pages237–243 (2022)

new paper on post-quantum cryptography (PQC):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04623-2.pdf

On Jim Watson’s APOE status: genetic information is hard to hide – PMC

April 18, 2022

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2986051/

James Watson and the missing gene – Mind Hacks

April 18, 2022

https://mindhacks.com/2007/06/04/james-watson-and-the-missing-gene/