How would you anonymize data? This is very difficult. If a user is
pseudonomized with a random identifier it is not difficult to
triangularize the user. This is particular the case if the user is a
Wikipedian: The user will often read his/her own user talk page and the
pages s/he edits.

Readings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy#Netflix_Prize


best regards
Finn Årup Nielsen


Den 29-12-2014 kl. 04:53 skrev Ditty Mathew:
> The exact user information is not needed. The anonymized data is enough.
> What exactly we need is the navigation path of Wikipedia readers.
> 
> with regards
> 
> Ditty
> 
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Afraid not. First, we do not have some of those datapoints; we do
>     not currently have unique user IDs. And, second, it would be a
>     tremendous ethical violation for us to release that data that we
>     /do/ have (IP addresses, for example).
> 
>     On 28 December 2014 at 21:00, Ditty Mathew <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         Is the reader's click log data(should contain user id/ip,
>         article title, timestamp) is available for Wikipedia.
> 
>         with regards
> 
>         Ditty
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