[MyData & Open Data] Fwd: NY Taxi data breach.

Javier Ruiz Diaz javier at openrightsgroup.org
Tue Jun 24 09:21:52 UTC 2014



> *From:* Mark Elliot <mark.elliot at MANCHESTER.AC.UK>
> *Date:* 24 June 2014 08:25
> *To:* UKAN at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> *Subject:* NY Taxi data breach.
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> All,
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> Unfortunately another example of bad pseudonymisation:
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> https://medium.com/@vijayp/of-taxis-and-rainbows-f6bc289679a1
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> The article only scratches the surface of the problems with this
> release, but even so it’s pretty damning.
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> How on earth the data holder thought that that data was anonymised in
> the wild is beyond me.
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> Yours exasperatedly,
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> Mark
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