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unicity: a standalone construct

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Information privacy

the fraction of people in a dataset who are uniquely identified by a small number of data points, such as a few location and time stamps.

In information privacy, unicity refers to the fraction of people in a dataset who are uniquely identified by a small number of data points, such as a few location and time stamps. This meaning comes from de Montjoye (2013) in Scientific Reports.[1]

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References

de Montjoye, Y., Hidalgo, C. A., Verleysen, M., & Blondel, V. D. (2013). Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility. Scientific Reports, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01376

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