Re:Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit C...
by stavrianos on Thursday December 17, 2009 @07:59PM
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if ya put it like that, it sounds more like a fundamental failing
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Re:Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit C...
by yrb on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:00PM
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The thing is that perfect anonymization implies that the dataset would be useless since by definition it would contain no information. If you can begin correlating data points with enough outside information you will be able to extract at least a shadow of the original information.