[MyData & Open Data] public bike data

[stef]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 07:46:55AM -0300, Song, Stephen wrote:
> 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.

it also shows that pseudonymization as such is still identifying private data.
also this is not news, we know this for many years. but then what do you
expect when a lot of uninformed people start being excited about the newest
hype?

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