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title: "Sustainable Privacy"
maintainer: "Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D."
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  - "Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D."
date: "2026-08-11"
year: 2026
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  - "policy"
  - "governance"
roles:
  - "security-architect"
  - "standards-policy"
  - "business-development"
  - "researcher"
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abstract_license: "CC BY 4.0"
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# Sustainable Privacy

A 15-page white paper arguing that privacy over time needs economic, legal, regulatory and technical protections together, since K-anonymity de-identification and selective disclosure are defeated by re-identification attacks. It describes a contextual linkability re-identification attack on selective disclosure and proposes chain-link confidentiality and data loyalty, for readers concerned with privacy design and policy.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/SustainablePrivacy.pdf (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).