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That's incorrect. His public Star Wars reviews linked him to the Michael Moore's rentals he wished to remain private.
by lt 17y ago
That's incorrect. His public Star Wars reviews linked him to the Michael Moore's rentals he wished to remain private.
- Jun8 17y agoYou're right. How about no public reviews on IMDB then? Or create another different users? I rent many movies from Netflix that people would find "objectionable", this is one reason I don't create any public reviews.
- raganwald 17y agoThis would require me to figure out in advance what public data links me to what private-but-anonymized data. We know about the IMDB-Netflix connection because it was pointed out after the fact. What other links are there that I can't predict? What if I can be identified by which nights I stay home to watch a movie? Generalizing, the problem with anonymized data sets is that it is very, VERY hard to say with confidence that the data cannot be connected to a client. That kind of data should not be released without consent.