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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
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Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
http://j.mp/Me5jUO (New York Times)
Facebook and Microsoft declined to comment on the issue. Hal
Varian, Google's chief economist, said he sympathized with the
idea of open data but added that the privacy issues were
significant. "This is one of the reasons the general pattern at
Google is to try to release data to everyone or no one," he said.
"I have been working to get companies to release more data about
their industries. The idea is that you can provide proprietary
data aggregated in a way that poses no threats to privacy."
- - -
This is perhaps a quintessential example of why this area is so
complex, and why anyone suggesting that these issues are "easily"
resolvable is likely either naive or lying.
--Lauren--
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