Australian government released "anonymised" healthcare data to researchers. Within months a good chunk of it was deanonymised, including celebrities and some po

Australian government released "anonymised" healthcare data to researchers. Within months a good chunk of it was deanonymised, including celebrities and some politicians themselves. There's a lot of privacy snakeoil out there and even large govt departments fall for it. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-simple-process-of-re-identifying-patients-in-public-health-records https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-simple-process-o...