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.

Mahathi Kari's research contributes to this conversation by examining one of the foundational building blocks of secure ...

Hashing refers to the process of using an algorithm to transform data of any size into a unique fixed sized output (e.g., combination of numbers). To put it in layman’s term, some piece of information ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has stated that hashed IDs, which have been widely adopted as a privacy-safe alternative to third-party cookies, aren't anonymous after all. "Companies often claim ...

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 ...

“Salting” refers to the insertion of a random value (e.g., a number or a letter) into personal data before that data is hashed. Whether personal information that has undergone salting and hashing is ...