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That's a terrible example to illustrate it's "very hard" to really anonymize data. Date of birth is an obvious deanonymizer. Zip code should never be included i
by brlewis 8y ago
That's a terrible example to illustrate it's "very hard" to really anonymize data. Date of birth is an obvious deanonymizer. Zip code should never be included in publicly released data; it's too granular when combined with race and approximate age.
Definitely thought needs to be put in, but I don't think "very hard" is right.
- gowld 8y ago> It's too granular when combined with race and approximate age. That goes or everything, and that's the problem with the PII concept. Passwords are (if handled well) unique secret keys. Either you know it or you don't. Close doesn't count. Personal identity is an amalgamation of dozens of personal facts, and each fact statistically deanonymizes a person.