Predicting Social Security numbers from public data
July 9th, 2009
This is nothing new. I already blogged about covert channels and how publicly available data can be used to accurately guess personal information.
[...]Using only publicly available information, we observed a correlation between individuals’ SSNs and their birth data [...] The inferences are made possible by the public availability of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File and the widespread accessibility of personal information from multiple sources, [...] results highlight the unexpected privacy consequences of the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies [...]
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