Privacy Technology

Technical approaches to protecting privacy, including VPNs, encryption, privacy-by-design, and privacy-preserving technologies.

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The CPR Number Was Never a Secret

· 11 min read · 12 sources

Denmark calls the CPR number confidential and uses it to identify everyone. What a security professor calls the register's largest breach was caught by an invoice.
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The Illusion of Delete

· 15 min read · 6 sources

We demand systems that never lose data, load instantly, and obey every law. Deletion fails not because companies are evil, but because we asked the impossible.
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Digitalisation: Lost Privacy by Design

· 11 min read · 9 sources

Digitalisation turns public records from manual lookups into mass extraction, exposing your name, address and finances to anyone willing to query them.