[open-government] OGD principles : Completeness versus Primacy

Tue Feb 5 00:35:16 UTC 2013

On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 12:55:14PM +1300, Andrew Ecclestone wrote:
> UK Information Commissioner's guide to anonymisation:
> http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/topic_guides/anonymisation.aspx
> 
> NZ government open access and licensing framework (NZGOAL), bit on anonymisation:
> http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/nzgoal/read-nzgoal#P158_22076 

regarding anonymization there's an interesting paper:
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of
Anonymization
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006

> Abstract:     
> Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the
> privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for
> protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting
> information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have
> demonstrated they can often 'reidentify' or 'deanonymize' individuals hidden
> in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we
> will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental
> misunderstanding, which has assured us much less privacy than we have
> assumed. This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law,
> regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant
> attention. We must respond to the surprising failure of anonymization, and
> this Article provides the tools to do so. 

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