‘Anonymized’ Data Is Meaningless Bullshit
When most of us think of how the concept of “ data ” has been skewered by the press , we ’re plausibly conceive aboutan app ’s position datum tipping offour house address , orapps like Grindr tipping advertisers offabout our sexuality . What ’s less scrutinized , both by the publicand by those in public part , is data that ’s “ anonymized”—tied to something like an IP address , rather than a name — even though that ’s a concept we ’ve seen to be bullshittime and again ....