A hash is kinda trash. Or, more precisely, not only will hashing data not anonymize it, but regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, consider hashed identifiers to be personal information.

Across industries, a practice long treated as “privacy-safe” is coming under renewed scrutiny: the widespread sharing of hashed customer identifiers. Once assumed to protect personal data, hashing is ...

Path’s big 2.1 release today comes with a promise of another update coming shortly: version 2.1.1. The extra .1 on the end represents Path’s intention to add “hashing” to any contact data it collects.

Data centers must be purpose-built to handle current and future workloads - evolving rapidly and driven by high volumes of end users, application types, cluster nodes, and overall data movement in the ...