Another Go At De-Identifying A Large Data Set Ends In Tears! Be Warned!

This popped up last week:Botched myki data release breached privacy lawsBy Justin Hendry on Aug 15, 2019 12:18PM Semi-redacted data from 15 million cards published online.Victoria ’s public transport authority has been found to have breached privacy laws after releasing a dataset containing 15 million partially redacted public transport passenger details online.The Office of the Victorian Information Commission (OVIC) today released its investigation [pdf] into the release of the dataset pertaining to Melbourne’s contactless smartcard ticketing system Myki.The investigation found the release had breached the state’s Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 by exposing myki user’s histories and called for stronger privacy protections for open data releases.The datase t, which contained 1.8 billion records of touch-on and touch-off activity from 15 million myki cards over a three year period between June 2015 and June 2018, was released by Public Transport Victoria in July 2018. Disclosure... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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