Australian Bank Anonymizes and Releases Billions of Records

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Post by estromlund » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:51 AM UTC

Australian Bank Anonymizes and Releases Billions of Records
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Post by boyter » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:17 AM UTC

I wonder how accurate this actually is... I punched in my details and apparently for my details there are less then 10 people like me. Considering where I live, age etc... that seems unlikely.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:46 AM UTC

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Post by chewxy » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:53 AM UTC

boyter wrote: post #2

I wonder how accurate this actually is... I punched in my details and apparently for my details there are less then 10 people like me. Considering where I live, age etc... that seems unlikely.

I put in my details and there were 25 people like me. And my spending habits, save for housing, is nothing like theirs.

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Post by damian2000 » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:55 AM UTC

boyter wrote: post #2

I wonder how accurate this actually is... I punched in my details and apparently for my details there are less then 10 people like me. Considering where I live, age etc... that seems unlikely.

Agreed - seemed a bit under what I expected too.

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Post by cstrat » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:58 AM UTC

boyter wrote: post #2

I wonder how accurate this actually is... I punched in my details and apparently for my details there are less then 10 people like me. Considering where I live, age etc... that seems unlikely.

I was the same, less than 10 people. I live city fringe in Sydney, would have thought there were more people like me...

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Post by pan69 » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 2:00 AM UTC

Nice idea but an absolute terrible website. E.g. If you go into the about section and expand one the questions you get this weirdo scroll bar. Seems like they're forcing the layout into a fixed dimension.

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Post by kysol » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 2:03 AM UTC

boyter wrote: post #2

I wonder how accurate this actually is... I punched in my details and apparently for my details there are less then 10 people like me. Considering where I live, age etc... that seems unlikely.

I dunno the results for entertainment were scarily accurate. Everything else seemed out, especially cost of food in my area, considering it's a "cafe" district and you'd be hard finding a cheap meal there.

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Post by cmaitchison » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 2:07 AM UTC

I'd say the initial 6 questions are modelled on Census data, not anonymous bank records.

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Post by xmodem » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 2:12 AM UTC

Kind of cool, but I bank with the bank in question (Ubank / National Australia Bank) and I'm not sure I'm completely comfortable that they'd use my transaction history like this.