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How does Uber anonymize the data? Does it only use subset of a trip? If you can see where and when a trip started or finished, it's definitely not anonymous enough.
How does Uber anonymize the data? Does it only use subset of a trip? If you can see where and when a trip started or finished, it's definitely not anonymous enough.
Aggregation is a common method for anonymization. One approach is to only display trips that were made by at least 15 different people in a day.
Good idea though, but not applicable everywhere
I'm curious what techniques they will use to anonymize the data. I would guess some sort of differential privacy technique.
And I do wonder why google maps with much more data hasn't done this...
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1. Privacy 2. Google doesn't have the same incentive to release data to local governments as Uber does (to improve regulatory relationships).
How so privacy? This data is anonymised, they could do the same.
This won't help in Belgium, where Trucks need to pay "road taxes" and have a device installed for that. They can also get the data for tracking vehicles and they won't need Uber. Good idea though, but not applicable everywhere
How does Uber anonymize the data? Does it only use subset of a trip? If you can see where and when a trip started or finished, it's definitely not anonymous enough.