Rethinking Data Privacy: The Impact of Machine Learning

Arguably, 2018 was the most relevant year for data privacy since the Snowden leaks in 2013. GDPR came into effect in May, presenting the first extensive rewrite of privacy law in Europe. It was the consequence of a breathtaking series of scandals: Cambridge Analytica had collected and exploited Facebook user data; vulnerabilities in Google+ had exposed data from half a million users; 25 million…