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A new MIT study examining anonymous credit card data shows that individuals can be identified using just a few pieces of information, writes Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Lee Hotz.  “This touches on the fundamental limit of anonymizing data,” explains Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye.

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