Technically, this is really interesting, but what's the business justification for the engineering work?
I'm skeptical that these efforts will protect Rapleaf or any other company from public relations disasters or class-action lawsuits or harmful regulation, because the solution is too complex for reporters, lawyers, and politicians to understand. (The cynic in me thinks that even if they did understand it, that's not going to get in the way of a good story / lawsuit / feel-good cause for the public.)
While I'm sympathetic, declaring that your dataset is 16-anonymous due to cluster-based suppression isn't going to persuade anyone that's already decided that behavioral targeting is the devil.
I'm skeptical that these efforts will protect Rapleaf or any other company from public relations disasters or class-action lawsuits or harmful regulation, because the solution is too complex for reporters, lawyers, and politicians to understand. (The cynic in me thinks that even if they did understand it, that's not going to get in the way of a good story / lawsuit / feel-good cause for the public.)
While I'm sympathetic, declaring that your dataset is 16-anonymous due to cluster-based suppression isn't going to persuade anyone that's already decided that behavioral targeting is the devil.