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>no anonymized is ever really anonymous Here's an anonymized email address, please tell me how to de-anonymize it: <redacted>@gmail.com My point is that
by pfundstein 6y ago
>no anonymized is ever really anonymous
Here's an anonymized email address, please tell me how to de-anonymize it:
<redacted>@gmail.com
My point is that your hyperbolic statement is not true, and anonymization can be done correctly.
- herbstein 6y agoLocation data isn't anonymous if you can follow the tracks of a single person throughout a week. Because where a person spends the majority of their time -- at work and at home -- are very personally identifiable. Then it doesn't matter if the dataset has "John Doe" or "<random id>" as the user identifier. Don't believe "anonymous" data is shared like that? Look at what New York Times could do when purchasing one of these datasets. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/loca...
- Daho0n 6y agoYes it's hyperbolic and home-brew encryption can be safe too. It just almost never happens. <redacted>@gmail.com + pfundstein is how it almost always fails.