- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:59:09 +0100
- To: Caspar Bowden <casparb@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>, "public-privacy@w3.org" <public-privacy@w3.org>
On the face of it. "please delete everything you know about me" is simple enough. But in the days of de-anonymization, it may not be. It is reasonable, for example, for a store to remember that it sold a vacuum cleaner; that it sold it to someone living in San Francisco; that the purchaser was in teh 25-30 years old age bracket; male; living alone; had recently bought a stove and ... and ...; ... and so on. These can all be used for product planning analysis, purchasing, stock-level, and other decisions, and so on. All reasonable business practice. At some point, someone will be able to work out who that is. Then there's a problem. And this (preventing re-correlation) is a moving and fluid target. This is one aspect; there may be others. On Nov 8, 2010, at 16:44 , Caspar Bowden wrote: >> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Rigo Wenning > ... >> The delete button is one of the ideas floating around in Brussels at the >> moment. The technical savvy people know that this is a research topic. > > Why? What is the engineering or comp.sci novelty? David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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