[LINK] ACM article on personally identifiable information

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Some of the other articles in the latest issue are freely 
available at:
<http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/6>

eg
<http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/6/92484-securing-elasticity-in-the-cloud/fulltext>

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Craige Hicks wrote:
> 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.
> 


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