Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach

Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by jedimastert on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:04AM (#24918235)

Unfortunately you need surprisingly little data to uniquely identify someone. For example, sex, date of birth, and zip code can uniquely identify a large swath of the general public.

http://latanyasweeney.org/work/identifiability.html

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Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by srtjstjsj on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:58AM (#24918765)

So removing the unnecessary date of birth and zip code, problem solved.

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