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Open data for a better understanding of the housing situation in Spain
Housing is one of the main concerns of Spanish citizens, according to the January 2025 barometer of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS). In order to know the real situation of access to housing, it is necessary to have public, updated and quality data, which allows all the actors in thi…
Open data to promote healthy ageing
Data on older people can play a crucial role in promoting healthy ageing, assisting the development and maintenance of the physical and mental capacities that enable well-being in old age. This open data can be used for the development of policies to better respond to the needs of older people, such…
PET technologies: how to use protected data in a privacy-sensitive way
As organisations seek to harness the potential of data to make decisions, innovate and improve their services, a fundamental challenge arises: how can data collection and use be balanced with respect for privacy? PET technologies attempt to address this challenge. In this post, we will explore what…
Common misunderstandings in data anonymisation
Data anonymisation is a complex process and often prone to misunderstandings. In the worst case, these misconceptions lead to data leakage, directly affecting the guarantees that should be offered to users regarding their privacy.
Anonymisation aims at rendering data anonymous, avoiding the re-ident…
Different approaches to identifying high-value data
Since the publication of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on open data and re-use of public sector information, the European Commission is undertaking a number of actions to develop the concept of high-value data that this directive introduced as an important novelty in June 2019.
We recall that high-value…
The importance of anonymization and data privacy
We are in a historical moment, where data has become a key asset for almost any process in our daily lives. There are more and more ways to collect data and more capacity to process and share it, where new technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Linked Data play a…
4 environment challenges that open data can help solve
A few months ago, the Open Data Climático, carried out by the Spanish Meteorology Agency, starred a large number of news, with headlines such as "70% of Spaniards affected by climate change", "Summers are five weeks longer than they were in the eighties" or "The semi-arid climate advances towards Ga…
