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An International Extension of Sweeney’s Data Privacy Research

Authors : Wayne Patterson, Cynthia E. Winston-Proctor

Published in: Advances in Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

About 20 years ago, the surprising research by Latanya Sweeney demonstrated that publicly available database information exposed the overwhelming percentage of United States residents to information easily available in order to facilitate the capture of such personal information, through techniques we now refer to as “dumpster diving.” In particular, her research demonstrated that approximately 87% of the United States population can be identified uniquely using only the five-digit postal code, date of birth (including year), and gender. Although this result has held up over time, given the demographic parameters used in developing this estimate, Sweeney’s technique made no attempt to develop similar estimates for other countries. In this paper, we use Sweeney’s technique in order to provide estimates of the ability of similar demographics to provide the same type of data in a number of other countries, particularly those that tend to be as susceptible to data privacy attacks as the United States.

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Title
An International Extension of Sweeney’s Data Privacy Research
Authors
Wayne Patterson
Cynthia E. Winston-Proctor
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Advances in Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-20487-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-20488-4

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20488-4_3

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