The term was introduced by Tore Dalenius in 1986.Dalenius, Tore. Finding a Needle In a Haystack or Identifying Anonymous Census Records. Journal of Official Statistics, Vol.2, No.3, 1986. pp. 329–336. URL Since then, quasi-identifiers have been the basis of several attacks on released data. For instance, Sweeney linked health records to publicly available information to locate the then-governor of Massachusetts' hospital records using uniquely identifying quasi-identifiers,Anderson, Nate. Anonymized data really isn’t—and here’s why not. Ars Technica, 2009. URL Barth-Jones, Daniel C. The're-identification'of Governor William Weld's medical information: a critical re-examination of health data identification risks and privacy protections, then and now. Then and Now (June 4, 2012) (2012). and Sweeney, Abu and Winn used public voter records to re-identify participants in the Personal Genome Project. Sweeney, Latanya, Akua Abu, and Julia Winn. "Identifying participants in the personal genome project by name." Available at SSRN 2257732 (2013). Additionally, Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov made use of quasi-identifiers to de-anonymize data released by Netflix.Narayanan, Arvind and Shmatikov, Vitaly. Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets. The University of Texas at Austin, 2008. URL
The term was introduced by Tore Dalenius in 1986.Dalenius, Tore. Finding a Needle In a Haystack or Identifying Anonymous Census Records. Journal of Official Statistics, Vol.2, No.3, 1986. pp. 329–336. URL Since then, quasi-identifiers have been the basis of several attacks on released data. For instance, Sweeney linked health records to publicly available information to locate the then-governor of Massachusetts' hospital records using uniquely identifying quasi-identifiers,Anderson, Nate. Anonymized data really isn’t—and here’s why not. Ars Technica, 2009. URL Barth-Jones, Daniel C. The're-identification'of Governor William Weld's medical information: a critical re-examination of health data identification risks and privacy protections, then and now. Then and Now (June 4, 2012) (2012). and Sweeney, Abu and Winn used public voter records to re-identify participants in the Personal Genome Project. Sweeney, Latanya, Akua Abu, and Julia Winn. "Identifying participants in the personal genome project by name." Available at SSRN 2257732 (2013). Additionally, Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov discussed on quasi-identifiers to indicate statistical conditions for de-anonymizing data released by Netflix.Narayanan, Arvind and Shmatikov, Vitaly. Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets. The University of Texas at Austin, 2008. URL
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