Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization

by Paul Ohm University of Colorado Law School August 13, 2009 University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-12 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 … Continue reading Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization