I got a little worn out keeping up with the explosion of open science email over the holidays, especially the traffic on the open science list run by the OKF. For the most part I deleted without reading under the belief that time with the family is more important than obsessive attention to email during the holiday season.

Shows just how easy reidentification is -- even for total amateurs.

Latanya Sweeney is doing amazing CS work aimed at protecting individuals' medical privacy.

Argues that reidentification threat is overblown.

Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of i