Re: [ietf-privacy] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-iab-privacy-considerations-03.txt

2012-08-09 Thread Ashok Malhotra
Fascinating! So if the Geolocation says Boston your algorithms, based on past behavior I presume, can pinpoint the location. All the best, Ashok On 8/8/2012 5:49 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: On 8 August 2012 15:37, Ashok Malhotraashok.malho...@oracle.com wrote: In the Geolocation work, one of

Re: [ietf-privacy] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-iab-privacy-considerations-03.txt

2012-08-08 Thread Robin Wilton
Hi Nikos, I think that's a very interesting idea. Like you, I also think we probably underestimate the extent to which data minimisation and anonymisation techniques genuinely obscure personal data. And yet very often, they are the only answers to the question What is 'Privacy By Design?'...

Re: [ietf-privacy] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-iab-privacy-considerations-03.txt

2012-08-08 Thread Ashok Malhotra
In the Geolocation work, one of the features that was discussed was an option that would provide an indistinct location such as the town or the county or perhaps even only the country. This adds fuzziness although not noise. If you add noise then, in the location case, you could end up with

Re: [ietf-privacy] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-iab-privacy-considerations-03.txt

2012-08-08 Thread SM
Hi Ashok, At 15:37 08-08-2012, Ashok Malhotra wrote: In the Geolocation work, one of the features that was discussed was an option that would provide an indistinct location such as the town or the county or perhaps even only the country. That can be described as granularity. It is not