Thursday, January 29, 2015

With a Few Bits of Data, Researchers Identify 'Anonymous' People

Knowing just four random pieces of information was enough to reidentify 90 percent of the shoppers as unique individuals and to uncover their records, researchers calculated.

from BWCWeb http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/with-a-few-bits-of-data-researchers-identify-anonymous-people/?_r=1

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