Research by Harvard University students shows anonymized data is not as anonymous as believed, Vice reports. A tool built by Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences students Dasha Metropolitansky and Kian Attari analyzes personally identifiable information from breaches and, despite many datasets containing “anonymized” data, the students easily identified users. Anonymized data from one company can be linked to non-anonymized data from another, revealing personal details, according to the report.
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