Latanya Sweeney’s research while affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University and other places

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Simple Demographics Often Identify People Uniquely
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January 2000

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Latanya Sweeney

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... It has been shown time and time again that typical anonymization techniques are still susceptible to reconstruction attacks. For example, while birth date, gender, or postal code cannot identify an individual alone, their combinations form quasi-identifiers which suffice to uniquely identify 87% of the population of the Unites States [40]. Differential privacy definitions prescribe that adding or removing an individual's genetic data should not change the output statistic significantly. ...

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Verified Foundations for Differential Privacy
Simple Demographics Often Identify People Uniquely
  • Citing Article
  • January 2000