Today’s NY Times story points out the FACT that is very easy to re-identify supposedly “de-identified” information. Singer starts with how the Netflix “de-identified” data base was proven to be re-identifiable and moves on to describe Latanya Sweeney’s famous re-identification of the medical records of Gov Weld.
See the NY Times Article: When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Re-Identification. From Netflix to Health Records.
Labels:
anonymity,
data mining,
deidentify,
digital,
EHR,
health,
identification,
netflix,
peel,
privacy,
re-identification,
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