Fonte: GDPR
Recently, well-publicised research by data scientists at Imperial College in London and Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium as well as a ruling by Judge Michal Agmon-Gonen of the Tel Aviv District Court have highlighted the shortcomings of outdated data protection techniques like “Anonymisation” in today’s big data world.
Recently, well-publicised research by data scientists at Imperial College in London and Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium as well as a ruling by Judge Michal Agmon-Gonen of the Tel Aviv District Court have highlighted the shortcomings of outdated data protection techniques like “Anonymisation” in today’s big data world.
Anonymisation reflects an outdated approach to data protection developed when the processing of data was limited to isolated (siloed) applications prior to the popularity of “big data” processing that involves widespread sharing and combining of data. This is why the Israeli judge in the above-cited case highlights the relevance of state of the art data protection principles embodied in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in her ruling that:
Increasing the technological capabilities that enable storing large amounts of data, known as “big data”, and trading this information, enables the cross-referencing of information from different databases, and thus also trivial information such as location, may be cross-referenced with other data and reveal many details about a person, which infringe upon his privacy.
