Don Chartier: Open Data and Privacy: Harder than It Looks
Channel: Chi Hack Night
Date: 2016-12-16

Don Chartier has been researching data privacy and the risks of re-identification, and ran across an article, "BROKEN PROMISES OF PRIVACY: RESPONDING TO THE SURPRISING FAILURE OF ANONYMIZATION". He summarizes that typical anonymization techniques, like removing personally identifiable information (PII), are no longer sufficient, but privacy laws give firms that just remove PII "safe harbor" (i.e., they're off the hook).

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On December 13th 2016, Chi Hack Night hosted our third round Lightning Talks featuring 8 members of our community. Each presenter was given 2 minutes to tell a story about civics, society and technology.