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This may be oversimplifying, but the nuance with privacy is that it’s not just about securing personally identifiable information (PII), it’s also about considering what other related pieces of information could be used together to infer PII. Therefore, you need to be very careful about the information you share, and the intentions of the people who collect it.
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but the nuance with privacy is that it’s not just about securing personally identifiable information (PII), it’s also about considering what other related pieces of information could be used together to infer PII. Therefore, you need to be very careful about the information you share, and the intentions of the people who collect it.
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As we train people to become Data Scientists and design sophisticated algorithms, I encourage practitioners and leaders to consider the trade offs between utility and privacy. This is a new, emerging and complex area, and I’ll explore it further in future posts.
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blog post by David Dietrich, June 25, 2013, director of technical marketing for the big data solutions group at EMC, founder of an initiatve at MIT, big data@CSAIL on how privacy is sacrificed online because of big data collection and algorithms that can figure out profiles based on seemingly unrelated information.