Software developer Vijay Pandurangan has demonstrated that sometimes data anonymizing efforts made by governments and businesses are worryingly inadequate, as he managed to easily deanonymize data detailing 173 million individual trips made by New York City taxi drivers.
The data was provided to Chris Whong, an "urbanist, mapmaker, data junkie" following a Freedom of Information request, and he made it available to the public
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