Capability to be re-identified through anonymous data

Researchers have once again shown that it is possible to identify people through anonymised data sets. Data scientists from London’s Imperial College and the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium estimated that “99.98 percent of Americans would be correctly re-identified in any data set using 15 demographic attributes.” In 2017 University of Melbourne (UoM) researchers … Continue reading Capability to be re-identified through anonymous data