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Researchers reverse Netflix anonymization
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-12-04

In a dramatic demonstration of the privacy dangers of databases that 
collect consumer habits, two researchers from the University of Texas at 
Austin have shown that a handful of movie ratings can identify a person as 
easily as a Social Security number.

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