Debunking the Myth of “Anonymous” Data
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Today, almost everything about our lives is digitally recorded and stored somewhere. Each credit card purchase, personal medical diagnosis, and preference about music and books is recorded and then used to predict what we like and dislike, and—ultimately—who we are. This often happens without our...
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One study from 2013 found that researchers could uniquely identify 50% of people using only two randomly chosen time and location data points.

I wonder how many people it could identify if updated to 3, or 4… How’s Location History going, Google?

there’s often pressure on the experts doing the aggregation to generate granular aggregate data sets that might be more meaningful to a particular decision-maker but which simultaneously expose individuals to an erosion of their personal privacy.

I’m not surprised.

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