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[ PRIVACY Forum ] How Hard Is It to 'De-Anonymize' Cellphone Data?
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How Hard Is It to 'De-Anonymize' Cellphone Data?
http://j.mp/14oUhaC (Science Daily)
"The proliferation of sensor-studded cellphones could lead to a wealth
of data with socially useful applications -- in urban planning,
epidemiology, operations research and emergency preparedness, among
other things. Of course, before being released to researchers, the
data would have to be stripped of identifying information. But how
hard could it be to protect the identity of one unnamed cellphone user
in a data set of hundreds of thousands or even millions? According to
a paper appearing this week in Scientific Reports, harder than you
might think."
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