Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs): an evergreen category - part 1

PETs, an acronym for the phrase “Privacy Enhancing Technologies,” constitute a phenomenon that is not new and dates back to the mid-1990s.

In fact, in 1995 the title of a groundbreaking report commissioned by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, and the Dutch Data Protection Authority1 contained the phrase “Privacy-enhancing technologies: the path to anonymity.”

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