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Indeed. However, I think, a wish to not provide a link between your DNA and your name is somehow understandable. Anonymizing a subset of social graph isn't some
by drdaeman 12y ago
Indeed. However, I think, a wish to not provide a link between your DNA and your name is somehow understandable. Anonymizing a subset of social graph isn't something completely wrong, although, indeed, I agree, it's unlikely to work well, because, it's very likely that only a single node would go without a name.
(However, if all his near relatives would do the same, all one could figure out that John Doe is probably a relative of a Jane Doe. And they're somewhat related to other people with real names, but at least deanonymizing requires more work and other databases.)
- jacquesm 12y agoA really old skit by a Dutch comedian went something like this: In old days we had only 1 digit phone numbers in our village. 0 was the operator, 1 was Dr. Jones, 2 was the parish priest, 3 was the butcher, 5 was the greengrocer, 6 was the local contractor, 7 the constable, 8 mrs. Smith, 9 the Jacksons and we had a secret number.