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Researchers reverse Netflix anonymization
From:Joe Klemmer
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:30:11 -0500

Researchers reverse Netflix anonymization
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-12-04

In a dramatic demonstration of the privacy dangers of databases that
collect consumer habits, two researchers from the University of Texas at
Austin have shown that a handful of movie ratings can identify a person
as easily as a Social Security number.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11497?ref=rss