Firm Tracking Purchase, Transaction Histories of Millions Maybe Not Really Anonymizing Them
https://gizmodo.com/report-firm-tracking-purchase-and-transaction-historie-1841799352
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Report: Firm Tracking Purchase, Transaction Histories of Millions Maybe Not Really Anonymizing Them
The nation’s largest financial data broker, Yodlee, holds extensive and supposedly anonymized banking and credit card transaction histories on millions of Americans. Internal documents obtained by Motherboard, however, appear to indicate that Yodlee clients could potentially de-anonymize those records by simply downloading a giant text file and poking around in it for a while.