Are you concerned that scientists have publicly posted an algorithm that can identify you personally 99.98% of the time from from available databases with as few as 15 attributes? Your info could be used to impersonate you for medical identity theft
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Exactly. People overreacting to this are missing the fundamental point that the “15 variables” have to include stuff that isn’t in any dataset meeting a reasonable definition of “de-identified”
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87% of US people in database identified correctly with only 3 variables: zip code; sex; date of birth https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pdf …
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