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Johnstech

September 11, 2009

The failure of anonymized data

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One of our key protections against privacy invasion, the stripping of personally identifiable information from databases, is not working, according to Paul Ohm of the University of Colorado School of Law.

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Great podcast, Jon!

The term "The Database of Ruin" is spot on. Thanks for the link to Paul Ohm. His paper is worth to be looked into.

5,000 - 10,000 databases?? That certainly is a number beyond my imagination.

Posted by Astoria Martens | September 11, 2009 5:30 PM

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