Observatory of Anonymity

In a crowd of
67 million,
how many look
just like you?

“Anonymised” datasets are rarely anonymous. With few everyday details such as approximate location or demographics, our model trained on census data can pick a single person out of an entire country.

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Population of the United Kingdom

67,330,000

A married man, born in 1974, living in the South East, in work.

about 57,000 people

Built by privacy researchers at Oxford, Imperial College London and UCLouvain, using census datasets across 103 countries from IPUMS. The underlying model was published in Nature Communications. Everything runs in your browser.