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There are techniques, with varying degrees of success, to anonymize PII from the input. Names, social security numbers, addresses, these follow a pattern and ca
by 42772827 2y ago
There are techniques, with varying degrees of success, to anonymize PII from the input. Names, social security numbers, addresses, these follow a pattern and can be changed before being used.
Can it be de-anonymized? Sure. Basically anything can be de-anonymized. If your concern is that some nefarious actor at a company will do malicious things with your info and that concern outweighs the benefit you get from using the models, steer clear. But let’s have the discussion about what is actually going on so people can decide for themselves
- bix6 2y agoCan you share some of the techniques? It seems much easier to scramble something like a social security number as you mention but what about less obvious PII? If someone puts their address in is it removed for example? What about their significant others name? Less obvious PII if you will.
- sebastiennight 2y agoI'm giving this thread less than 24 hours before someone can find you an actual case of support/tech staff abusing PII present in logs of their company... This is definitely a concern that end users should be aware of.
- bix6 2y ago24h later, how’d we do?
- sebastiennight 2y agoLOL thanks for calling me on it. I thought this thread would we way more popular, and was on my phone so feeling a bit too lazy to DuckDuckGo a bunch of examples.