Data Anonymization Risks
The cluster discusses the challenges and often impossibility of truly anonymizing data, with commenters arguing that anonymized datasets can be deanonymized through correlations with other data sources, citing examples like the AOL search data leak.
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Data that has ostensibly been "anonymized" can often be deanonymized.
How so privacy? This data is anonymised, they could do the same.
Should be possible to anonymize the data, no?
You can't really anonymize data:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
It's impossible to anonymize; that's the point.
As long as you anonymise in a way that you can't de-anonymise it should be OK.
as long as that information is anonymised (and impossible to de-anonymise), i don't see the problem...
Related: there's no such thing as "anonymized data", there's only "anonymized until correlated with enough other datasets".
Do you know to what degree the data is anonymized?
There's no such thing. Anonymized data can still be used to identify someone as we've seen on numerous occasions.