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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…
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…
Most popular geospatial visualisation tools
Maps help us to understand the world in which we live and have therefore been fundamental in the development of humanity. They allow us to know the characteristics of a place and to understand social phenomena, such as the spatial behaviour of a disease or the traceability of trade flows.
If we sho…
Applications of [open] data science for agriculture
In many areas, there is a false belief that the primary sector is a technologically backward sector that is not involved in digitization. Perhaps because throughout history, as economic development indicators progressed, their weight in GDP and employment rates has been decreasing in favor of other…
