{"id":1614,"date":"2016-01-15T00:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2016-01-15T00:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:55:41","slug":"yahoos-gigantic-anonymized-user-dataset-isnt-all-that-anonymous-motherboard-14-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2016\/01\/15\/yahoos-gigantic-anonymized-user-dataset-isnt-all-that-anonymous-motherboard-14-january-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo\u2019s Gigantic \u2018Anonymized\u2019 User Dataset Isn\u2019t All That Anonymous | Motherboard, 14 January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sometimes information from several sources, not just one other source, but three or four different public records sources,\u201d said David O\u2019Brien, a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, referring to how someone might re-identify someone whose name was scrubbed from the dataset by Yahoo.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/yahoos-gigantic-anonymized-user-dataset-isnt-all-that-anonymous\">Yahoo\u2019s Gigantic \u2018Anonymized\u2019 User Dataset Isn\u2019t All That Anonymous | Motherboard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sometimes information from several sources, not just one other source, but three or four different public records sources,\u201d said David O\u2019Brien, a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, referring to how someone might re-identify &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2016\/01\/15\/yahoos-gigantic-anonymized-user-dataset-isnt-all-that-anonymous-motherboard-14-january-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}