The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1
Claims, Media Manipulation and Threats to Academic Freedom’,
Genealogy, 2018.


  1. Ash L., ‘The Christmas present that could tear your family
    apart’, BBC News Online, 20 December 2018.

  2. Clark K., ‘Scoop: 23andMe is raising up to $300M’, PitchBook,
    24 July 2018; Rutherford A., ‘DNA ancestry tests may look
    cheap. But your data is the price’, The Guardian, 10 August
    2018.

  3. Cox N., ‘UK Biobank shares the promise of big data’, Nature, 10
    October 2018.

  4. Based on 1990 census data, Sweeney estimated 87 per cent of
    people could be identified. Subsequent studies revised this down
    to 61–63 per cent based on 1990 and 2000 data. Background:
    Sweeney L., ‘Simple Demographics Often Identify People
    Uniquely’, Carnegie Mellon University, Data Privacy Working
    Paper, 2000; Ohm P., ‘Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding
    to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization’, UCLA Law Review,
    2010; Sweeney L., ‘Only You, Your Doctor, and Many Others May
    Know’, Technology Science, 2015.

  5. Sweeney L., ‘Only You, Your Doctor, and Many Others May
    Know’, Technology Science, 2015.

  6. Smith S., ‘Data and privacy’, Significance, 3 October 2014.

  7. Background on taxi data from: Whong C., ‘FOILing NYC’s Taxi
    Trip Data’, 18 March 2014. https://chriswhong.com; Pandurangan
    V., ‘On Taxis and Rainbows’, 21 June 2014. https://tech.vijayp.ca

  8. Background and quotes from: Tockar A., ‘Riding with the Stars:
    Passenger Privacy in the NYC Taxicab Dataset’, 15 September
    2014. https://research.neustar.biz.

  9. De Montjoye Y.A., ‘Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of
    human mobility’, Scientific Reports, 2013.

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