Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata

Large-scale data sets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the way we fight diseases, design cities, or perform research. Metadata, however, contain sensitive information. Understanding the privacy of these data sets is key to their broad use and, ultimately, their impact....

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Radaelli, Laura, Singh, Vivek Kumar, Pentland, Alex
Other Authors: MIT Connection Science (Research institute)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130329