[$] Guarding personally identifiable information

There is no viable way to prevent data from being collected about us in thecurrent age of computing. But if institutions insist on knowing ourfinancial status, purchasing habits, health information,political preferences, and so on, they have a responsibility to keep thisdata-known as personally identifiable information (PII)-from leaking tounauthorized recipients. At the 2017 Strata dataconference in London, Steve Touw presented a sessionon privacy-enhancing technologies. In a fast-paced 40 minutes hecovered the EU regulations about privacy, the most popular technicalmeasures used to protect PII, and some pointed opinions about what worksand what should be thrown into the dustbin.