InfoCoBuild

Living in a Cyber-Enabled World

Big Data: The Broken Promise of Anonymisation. It is often claimed that your personal data is safe because it has been anonymised, but computer scientists know how easy it is to re-identify the individual by matching the data against other public datasets. Anonymised detailed personal data is a contradiction - a broken promise. The consequences and the alternatives will be discussed.

An independent consultant systems engineer and non-executive director, Professor Martyn Thomas is an internationally recognised expert in safety-critical or security-critical, software intensive systems, software engineering, and cybersecurity. (from gresham.ac.uk)

06. Big Data: The Broken Promise of Anonymisation


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01. Should We Trust Computers?
02. A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015
03. How Can Software Be So Hard?
04. Computers, People and the Real World
05. Cybersecurity
06. Big Data: The Broken Promise of Anonymisation
07. Are You the Customer or the Product?
08. Safety-Critical Systems
09. The Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance
10. What Really Happened in Y2K?
11. Making Software 'Correct by Construction'
12. Artificial Intelligence