On: TrueVault – HIPAA compliant data storage

[sp332]

It's not bullshit. Here's the paper from 2000: http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pd... From the abstract: 87% (216 million of 248 million) of the population in the United States had reported characteristics that likely made them unique based only on {5-digit ZIP, gender, date of birth}.

[hippaway → sp332]

the date of birth is not cited in the example. Only the age. Seems like a stretch of an example to me.