Bloom filters are an essential class of probabilistic data structures designed for rapid set membership testing while minimising memory usage. By utilising multiple hash functions, these ...

The research team says it wants to use machine learning models to design hash functions for other types of data and plans to explore learned hashing for databases in which data can be inserted or ...

Not only will hashing data not anonymize it, but regulators, including the FTC, consider hashed identifiers to be personal information.

Companies should not act or claim as if hashing personal information renders it anonymized. "While hashing might obscure how a user identifier appears, it still creates a unique signature that can ...

Description The design, implementation, and analysis of abstract data types, data structures and their algorithms. Topics include: data and procedural abstraction, amortized data structures, trees and ...

Back in early February, Path met with some serious backlash when Arun Thampi revealed that the social app was uploading address book data without explicit permission from its users. Path responded ...