Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata

Science

Volumn 347, Issue 6221, 2015, Pages 536-539

  De Montjoye, Yves Alexandre ^a   Radaelli, Laura ^b   Singh, Vivek Kumar ^a,c   Pentland, Alex Sandy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; DATA SET; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; METADATA; SHOPPING ACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CREDIT CARD METADATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INFORMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; INCOME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIVACY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

COMMERCE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; PRIVACY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84921917628     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1256297     Document Type: Article

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