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How to Avoid Reidentification with Proper Anonymization

arXiv:1808.01113 · doi:10.1126/science.aad9295

Abstract

De Montjoye et al. claimed that most individuals can be reidentified from a deidentified transaction database and that anonymization mechanisms are not effective against reidentification. We demonstrate that anonymization can be performed by techniques well established in the literature.

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