Even anonymized and aggregated consumer data may not be as anonymous as people have been led to believe, according to new academic research.
Researchers concluded that aggregated data — big batches of information on things like mobile devices’ movements, compiled for use in summarized form — can be unraveled to reveal the actual movements of specific individuals with about 73% to 91% accuracy, even from pools combining hundreds of thousands of users.
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