This appeared last week:Personal data de-identification practically impossible: expert 22 November 2016 Written by Sam Varghese The Australian government may well have to reconsider its plan to release data about its citizens for use by businesses or scientists, with a top expert in security and privacy engineering telling iTWire that de-identification of datasets so that they cannot be traced back to the original is very hard, to the point of being practically impossible.George Danezis, professor of security and privacy engineering at University College, London, offered the response after being asked about de-identification of datasets in connection with the leak of personally identifiable details in health data that was released by the government.Researchers at Melbourne University were able to trace back the data and after the government was made aware of this, the released dataset was taken offline.iTWire initially asked Mustafa al-Bassam, a former member of Anonymous,...
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