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Notably, Arvind Narayanan, one of the deanonymizers is our very own randomwalker: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=randomwalker http://news.ycombinator.com
by wheels 17y ago
Notably, Arvind Narayanan, one of the deanonymizers is our very own randomwalker:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=randomwalker http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=randomwalker
- chaosmachine 17y agoWell, you certainly deanonymized him..
- randomwalker 17y agoThanks Scott. I just want to say that I had nothing to do with this lawsuit. Also, this comment I posted earlier might be relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838226 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838226
- dschobel 17y agoSo what's your take on the liability issue? It doesn't sound like this was a technical failing of netflix' anonymization process but rather a matter of deduction of various independently anonymous pieces of data.
- stavrianos 17y agoif ya put it like that, it sounds more like a fundamental failing
- yrb 17y agoThe thing is that perfect anonymization implies that the dataset would be useless since by definition it would contain no information. If you can begin correlating data points with enough outside information you will be able to extract at least a shadow of the original information.