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On anonymity and privacy... I always thought this was an interesting fact: Birthday, Gender and Zipcode is enough to identify someone uniquely approximately 85
by jmatt 15y ago
On anonymity and privacy... I always thought this was an interesting fact:
Birthday, Gender and Zipcode is enough to identify someone uniquely approximately 85% of the time.
And a quickly googled source but the meme is older than that: http://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/12/uniquely-identifying-people-by-birth.html http://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/12/uniquely-identifyin...