Anonymising big data - the struggle to make complex encryption simpler

John Leonard
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As we wait for the holy grail of homomorphic encryption, Computing finds out what researchers are doing to fill the gap

In the days when data mostly sat in proprietary formats in proprietary silos it was generally more trouble than it was worth to cross-match datasets to profile an individual in any depth. But th...

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