There's No Such Thing As An Anonymized Dataset

Computer scientists have figured out how to de-anonymize the "anonymous" data set that Netflix released as part of its million-dollar contest to improve its recommendation algorithm.

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link by tomtolman on 01 December 2007, tagged as anonymized, dataset, privacy, and security