If you think you've anonymized a data set, you're probably wrong

Using some clever computing, Atockar took the NYC Taxicab Dataset and not only calculated the annual income of ever hack in New York, but also figured out which who goes to strip clubs, what celebrities home addresses were, and how they tipped. In order to do this, I spent some of the most riveting hours of my professional career searching through images of "celebrities in taxis in Manhattan in 2013a 3 to find enough information to identify the correct record in the database.

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