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

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de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre
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Pentland, Alex
Date Issued
March 18, 2016
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Science
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de Montjoye, Y. A., & Pentland, A. (2016). Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata”. Science, 351(6279), 1274-1274.
Abstract
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 methods fail. Moving forward, deidentification should not be considered a useful basis for policy.
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