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		yuvadam on Aug 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified... I should run that on the Israeli population census - which has been illegally leaked several times [1]. The ZIP codes in Israel are per-street, not city. Given Israel's population of just under 8M, I believe a very high percentage (95% <) of unique people can be found. [1] - http://blog.y3xz.com/post/7846661044/data-mining-the-israeli...

edanm on Aug 31, 2011 [–]

You should definitely update us on that - it will be very interesting to see the results.

Great article, by the way. I especially like the idea of diff'ing the databases.

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