Now available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
While legal scholars have cited decades of computer science research that demonstrates why anonymity is hard (and that datasets should not be labelled as "
This paper (abstract below) on the lies the adtech/data broker industry tells courts has finally been published: yjolt.org/anonymity-co...
Joint work with Joel Reardon at U Calgary and Ken Bamberger and Laurel McGrane at Berkeley Law. 1/
Serge Egelman
Colleagues and I recently completed a study (to be published in the next few months in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology) in which we evaluated data brokers’ claims: we acquired several million rows from data brokers selling data they claimed to be anonymous and collected with consent.
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