Harvard Professor Re-Identifies Anonymous Volunteers In DNA Study - Forbes

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"....Misha Angrist, an assistant professor of the practice at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy and one of the original ten to participate in the Personal Genome Project, praises the re-identification experiments by researchers such as Sweeney and Erlich. “It is a nuisance to scientists who are trying to operate under the status quo and to tell their participants with a straight face, you know, it’s very unlikely that you will be identified,” he says. “It is useful for pointing out that the emperor has no clothes, that absolute privacy and confidentiality are illusory.”"