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New York Taxi ID Numbers in Anonymized Logs Are Decrypted

24
Jun
2014

Details of more than 173 million taxi trips have been fully de-anonymized by a software developer in less than an hour. Following a public records request, New York City officials provided Chris Whong with the full log of the trips and fare logs from the NY taxis. Not all information could be offered in plain […]

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One data set doxxed every cab driver in New York

23
Jun
2014

When civic hacker Chris Whong got a full years worth of taxi logs from New Yorks taxi commission, it seemed like a victory for data visualizers everywhere. But a new piece from Vijay Pandurangan suggests the data set is more revealing than the city initially thought. Diving into the data, Pandurangan shows how easy it […]

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