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Re:The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really? by trainingaccount on Thursday November 22, 2018 @05:52PM (#18513077)
With enough data you can often "de-anonymize" to discover actual identities.
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Re:The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really? by tonyarkles on Friday November 23, 2018 @01:27AM (#18514747)
Whenever the topic of anonymizing and deanonymizing and PII comes up, I have to use myself as an example of how little data can be considered PII. Despite living in a city of 300,000 people, through a quirk in street numbering my house wound up with a unique postal code. Given the postal code, almost any piece of data goes from 1 of 2 people (me and my wife) to just one of us.

Hopefully that thought sends shivers down the sounds of anyone who is trying to come up with a data anonymization scheme

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