ICO: Mash-ups further complicate data privacy

Stuart Sumner
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Watchdog says sophisticated analytics is posing a growing threat to anonymity

Understanding how supposedly anonymous information could be mashed together and analysed with other data already in the public domain is one of the biggest challenges facing the Information Commiss...

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