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Sorry to break you the news, but your employer is probably selling snake oil. And this is exactly the point of the TFA: > However, in practice, any attempt at
by m000 3y ago
Sorry to break you the news, but your employer is probably selling snake oil. And this is exactly the point of the TFA:
> However, in practice, any attempt at de-identification requires removal not only of your identifiable information, but also of information that can identify you when considered in combination with other information known about you.
So, anonymization may be well intended and sophisticated, but is only effective as long as you control and anonymize all the data available to your adversary. Which you obviously cannot. The best you can achieve with anonymized data is to allow non-malicious users to run some analysis on your data in a controlled environment without exposing them to information they should not see. If that's your employer's business model, well, there may be a market niche for that.
- willseth 3y agoI designed our anonymization systems. You clearly have a misunderstanding of the threat model and the treatment methods.
- m000 3y agoOf course I have a misunderstanding. You only shared some very vague statements. Could you share some insight on your threat model and your envisioned use case? TFA is obviously referring to the general case where you can't really put arbitrary restrictions to the adversary.