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Big data's end run around procedural privacy protections

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Recognizing the inherent limitations of consent and anonymity.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 11
        November 2014
        95 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/2684442
        • Editor:
        • Moshe Y. Vardi
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