I suspect we will be seeing more of these types of articles in coming months and years. This is essentially the same type of problem that impacts other areas of security from secure software development to encryption; we develop an assurance method and then research (legitimate or otherwise) finds the flaws. The problem I see is that unlike secure software development and encryption, de-identification methods don’t have the same level of maturity. With the current environment of data (especially personal data) being of high value, we are going to need to mature these methods very quickly
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