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by zzzcpan 2169 days ago
It's not possible to reliably anonymize data and still be able to infer something from it, the idea is just too logically broken. Because the whole reason for anonymity is to make sure no information about any individual or a set of individuals of the size decided by those seeking such protection can be inferred from the data by the parties that want to infer something from it. While "differential privacy" assumes that not being able to infer information about relatively small sized sets of individuals decided by the parties who want to infer something from the data is "privacy". It isn't of course, it's a pretty dystopian use of the word privacy. Hence why corporations love this stuff, privacy without privacy is godsent to them.