From the Ars Technica article:
Companies continue to store and sometimes release vast databases of “anonymized” information about users. But, as Netflix, AOL, and the State of Massachusetts have learned, “anonymized” data can often be cracked in surprising ways, revealing the hidden secrets each of us are assembling in online “databases of ruin.”
I’m far from being a privacy freak (and I think you can find the proof here, here, here, here, etc.). But I strongly believe that we have to create very clear and strict regulations for private data, its retention and disclosure policies. We should finally accept that data belongs to us and we should be the only ones controlling where, when and how we share it.
