PII

Tesla Cars Store Unencrypted Data

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Author: Marie Weber, Lexy Kassan; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following podcast episode discusses how Tesla had a bug bounty program running in 2019 which led people to try and hack wrecked Tesla cars. The reason was that all the footage, precise geolocation, and other related information was being stored in the car’s computer. The (supposedly ethical) hackers were able to extract personally identifiable…

Protecting Individual-Level Census Data with Differential Privacy

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Author: N/A; Publisher: Linear Digressions; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode introduces the idea of personal identifiable information (PII) in reference to census data and weighs the importance of the granularity of data against the right to privacy. In the case of census data, it is critical to the functioning of our government, but in the case of undocumented people represents a threat if the data is…