[MyData & Open Data] public bike data

[Song, Stephen]

On 11 April 2014 07:02, Sally Deffor <sally.deffor at okfn.org> wrote:

> That was a fascinating read. In my mind, it is analysis such as this that
> make the questions we are raising on this forum not only relevant but
> timely. The guiding principles for opening data to manage privacy risks (as
> we would most likely call it) if followed could sufficiently address most
> of the issues in this article. For example, an easily- rectifiable solution
> of omitting customer record numbers could substantially increase the
> security of the data, and this could be explicitly stated in the
> principles. Another issue raised is the fact that a "fair bit of effort is
> required to actually unearth the specific individuals", now the principles
> could for example establish that beyond a certain level of enquiry into the
> datasets, the individual (interacting with the data) crosses moral grounds,
> and as he rightly stated, it was beginning to get uncomfortable with the
> personal nature of the scrutiny.
>

What we've learned from Internet security is that what is "a fair bit of
effort" for the first person is a simple script for the next person.  I
would go further in saying that deanonymisation in this case would not even
be a fair bit of effort for professional data brokers.  As you point out,
the customer record number is literally the key.

-Steve


> Unfortunately, the principles will only be targeting data publishers and
> not the general public.
>
> Sally
>
>
> On 11 April 2014 00:31, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://vartree.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/i-know-where-you-were-last-summer.html
>> > This article is about a publicly available dataset of bicycle journey
>> data
>> > that contains enough information to track the movements of individual
>> > cyclists across London, for a six month period just over a year ago.
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