Someone was asking on this list a few weeks ago about automatic recognition of personally identifiable information.
Apparently not effective. http://www.wsj.com/articles/metadata-can-expose-persons-identity-even-when-name-isnt-1422558349 Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing Thursday in the journal Science, analyzed anonymous credit-card transactions by 1.1 million people. Using a new analytic formula, they needed only four bits of information secondary metadata such as location timing or to identify the unique individual purchasing patterns of 90% of the people involved, even when the data were scrubbed of any names, account numbers or other obvious identifiers. -- http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ Split a packed field and I am there; parse a line of text and you will find me.
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