Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers

March 27, 2022

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00339-5
What if Q-day occurs on Pi-day?

Why world leaders are refusing to give Russia their DNA | The Week UK

March 6, 2022

https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/world-news/russia/955813/why-world-leaders-refuse-give-russia-dna

Thought this story was intriguing in relation to genomic #privacy & how the pandemic has potentially amplified worries about it. It was presaged by an opinion piece we did a decade ago
(https://USAToday.com/story/opinion/tory/opinion/2013/06/27/dov-greenbaum-and-mark-gerstein-on-nsa-and-genetics/2465589)

https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/1500693248179904513

Does Part of Putin’s Wartime Mindset Reflect Pandemic Isolation? – The New York Times

March 6, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/world/putin-pandemic-mindset.html
QT:{{”
Now Mr. Putin has in-person visitors — including the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, who met with Mr. Putin for about three hours on Saturday. (Mr. Putin’s residence and the Kremlin are outfitted with disinfectant tunnels that all visitors must pass through.)

Some of the world leaders who have met with Mr. Putin in recent diplomatic overtures were seated 20 feet from him at a behemoth of a table, having refused to submit to Russian P.C.R. tests that would make their DNA available to the Russians. Otherwise, people who meet him face-to-face generally have spent as long as two weeks in quarantine first.

Mr. Putin’s extreme caution reflects not only his age — he is 69, putting him at relatively high risk of severe illness from the coronavirus — but also what critics describe as paranoia honed during his former career as a K.G.B. spy.
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processing data from deceased individuals

December 21, 2021

https://www.ga4gh.org/news/ga4gh-gdpr-brief-processing-the-data-of-the-deceased-for-scientific-research-purposes-looking-beyond-the-gdpr

Someone Offered ‘Harvard’ Jobs to Known Women in India. It Was a Scam. – The New York Times

December 19, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/technology/harvard-job-scam-india.html

Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data | WIRED UK

November 2, 2021

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/vintage-computers-data

There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain | WIRED

October 20, 2021

https://www.wired.com/story/there-are-spying-eyes-everywhere-and-now-they-share-a-brain/ data integration

Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy?

October 17, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/why-do-we-care-so-much-about-privacy

Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy – The New York Times

September 4, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

Expanding Access to Large-Scale Genomic Data While Promoting Privacy: A Game Theoretic Approach: The American Journal of Human Genetics

August 29, 2021

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(16)30526-2

Expanding Access to Large-Scale Genomic Data While Promoting Privacy: A Game Theoretic Approach

Zhiyu Wan
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
Weiyi Xia
Ellen Wright Clayton
Murat Kantarcioglu
Bradley Malin

Published:January 05, 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.12.002