Stop the Open Data Bus, We Want to Get Off
Chris Culnane, Rubinstein, A/Benjamin I. P., A Prof. Vanessa Teague · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019
The subject of this report is the re-identification of individuals in the Myki public transport dataset released as part of the Melbourne Datathon 2018. We demonstrate the ease with which we were able to re-identify ourselves, our co-travellers, and complete strangers; our analysis raises concerns about the nature and granularity of the data released, in particular the ability to identify vulnerable or sensitive groups.