Rutgers Today reports on the work of School of Communication and Information Assistant Prof. Vivek Singh and his recent paper, “Unique in the Shopping Mall: On the Reidentifiability of Credit Card Metadata.” Singh, who is currently a visiting professor at MIT, suggests the research shows “we need to rethink the ideas we have about privacy,” the report states. Singh explains, “It is relatively easy for anyone, with just a bit of information, to find out very private details about our lives …We therefore need to redefine our current definition of privacy.” While the research doesn’t prove “that we all have any lesser privacy than before or that privacy is gone,” he notes, it “does show that we do need to rethink how we measure and define it.”
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