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I thought this was famous work that stopped a lot of anonymized data being released and was part of the reason that the programme around differential privacy ki

• extra88 8y ago
  Eventually people caught on but not in 1997. I think Dr. Sweeney spent years in the wilderness. I wonder if her work got more attention after the deanonymized Netflix data in 2006 got headlines.
• gumby 8y ago
  It became famous because she was clever enough to get the governor's data, which meant her work became interesting to the general press. The specialist press remained uninterested for reasons discussed in the article and elsewhere in this discussion.