{"id":660649,"date":"2013-05-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=4aede895a24431a85ec7aede6edc4b8c"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:13:08","slug":"what-was-anonymity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660649","title":{"rendered":"What Was Anonymity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of science, 2,500 people have participated in Harvard&#8217;s Personal Genome Project, anonymously sharing DNA data along with such information as histories of depression and sexually transmitted disease. But Harvard Privacy Lab director Latanya Sweeney demonstrates what &#8220;anonymous&#8221; really means. Of 579 participants who listed their birth dates, ZIP codes, and genders, her team was able to identify <strong>42%<\/strong> by name using public records. Previously she was able to identify up to <strong>87%<\/strong> of the U.S. population with just ZIP code, birth date, and gender.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=WKJ2sbDh1Uc:veFDxu4CHMM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=WKJ2sbDh1Uc:veFDxu4CHMM:bcOpcFrp8Mo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/harvardbusiness\/~4\/WKJ2sbDh1Uc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of science, 2,500 people have participated in Harvard&#8217;s Personal Genome Project, anonymously sharing DNA data along with such information as histories of depression and sexually transmitted disease. But Harvard Privacy Lab director Latanya Sweeney demonstrates what &#8220;anonymous&#8221; really means. Of 579 participants who listed their birth dates, ZIP codes, and genders, her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}