Michael Buckbee

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Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Cindy and I had the good fortune of attending part of the Real World Cryptography Workshop held last week in New York City. We went primarily to listen to Bruce...

How to Do Data Classification at Scale

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

One of the important points we make in our recently published Information Entr opy report is that you can’t just decide you have intellectual property, issue NDAs to employees, and...

New PII Discovered: License Plate Pictures

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

After finishing up some research on personally identifiable information I thought, mistakenly, that I was familiar with the most exotic forms of PII uncovered in recent years, including zip code-birth...

Personally Identifiable Information Hides in Dark Data

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

To my mind, HIPAA has the most sophisticated view of PII of all the US laws on the books. Their working definition encompasses vanilla identifiers: social security and credit card...

Revealed: Secret PIIs in your Unstructured Data!

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Personally identifiable information or PII is pretty intuitive. If you know someone’s phone, social security, or credit card number, you have a direct link to their identity. Hackers use these...

Is DNA Really Personally Identifiable Information (PII)? No. Maybe? Yes!

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Biometric data is at the limits of what current personal data privacy laws consider worthy of protection. This type of identifier covers fingerprints, voiceprints, and facial images. While the risk...

From the HIPAA Case Files: Jail Time, Fines, and Access Rights

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

While I was conducting some research on compliance laws for a customer, I found myself reviewing the penalties written into the 1996 Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, otherwise known...

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