Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata”

Sánchez et al.’s textbook k-anonymization example does not prove, or even suggest, that location and other big-data data sets can be anonymized and of general use. The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their metho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex
Other Authors: MIT Connection Science (Research institute)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130321