text: **3.7. The privacy problem**
  Being perceived as a lethal attack to privacy remains one of the biggest misunderstandings that 
  
  prevents adoption of Open Data. On one hand, there is no doubt that in an increasingly digital world 
  
  it becomes harder and harder to protect privacy. But, exactly*because*the whole world is going 
  
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  *Copyright 2011 LEM, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. This work is released under a Creative Commons attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)*