[LINK] ACM article on personally identifiable information

[Craige Hicks]

Article is:

Narayanan , Arvind. ( 2010)
Myths and fallacies of "personally identifiable information"
Communications of the ACM 53 ( 6) ,  24- .
ISSN:  00010782  DOI:  10.1145/1743546.1743558  



-----Original Message-----
From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au
[mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Karl Auer
Sent: Sunday, 27 June 2010 11:13 PM
To: Link List
Subject: [LINK] ACM article on personally identifiable information

There is an excellent article in the June 2010 edition of the
"Communications of the ACM" about personally identifiable information.

The authors make the point - convincingly - that "any attribute can be
identifying in combination with others". They basically come to the
conclusion that the idea of "personally identifiable information" is
essentially meaningless unless defined in such strict terms that it
becomes useless. Meaningless or useless - take your pick :-)

The article is about re-identification via datasets that have been
allegedly "de-identified", and is an interesting read.

Regards, K.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)                   +61-2-64957160 (h)
http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/                  +61-428-957160 (mob)

GPG fingerprint: B386 7819 B227 2961 8301 C5A9 2EBC 754B CD97 0156
Old fingerprint: 07F3 1DF9 9D45 8BCD 7DD5 00CE 4A44 6A03 F43A 7DEF

_______________________________________________
Link mailing list
Link at mailman.anu.edu.au
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link