A Flawed Random-Number Theory
IBM's Privacy Research Institute recently revealed techniques that aim to preserve individual privacy while giving e-businesses information to generate data models. These techniques scramble or Ã'randomizeÃ" private information and reconstruct data distributions at an aggregate level to perform data mining. This means that Web site administrators and merchants can use scrambled data without knowing the underlying private information.
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