Failure of Anonymization
Auf ars technica gibt es einen interessanten Beitrag über “anonymisierte” Daten:
In 2000, she [Latanya Sweeney] showed that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified using only three bits of information: ZIP code, birthdate, and sex.
Such work by computer scientists over the last fifteen years has shown a serious flaw in the basic idea behind “personal information”: almost all information can be “personal” when combined with enough other relevant bits of data.