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8 total sentences available.
So the first step in anonymizing microdata is to “deidentify” (anonymize) the microdata by removing identifiers such as name of business and address (Willenbourg and de Waal 2001; Ramanayake and Zayatz 2010), but this can still leave[…]
Source: wiktionary
A fundamental problem with efforts to protect individuals from identification, Barth-Jones said, is that as more is done to deidentify or anonymize the data, the less useful the information is for statistical analyses.
Source: wiktionary
You can anonymize or deidentify e-PHI by removing all of these identifiers. The modified data set is not e-PHI and is not subject to HIPAA regulations. As discussed in the HIE section earlier, this In the code injection attack, […]
Source: wiktionary
[…] will be perceived by others in terms of the imputed qualities of the role, thus making it more difficult for the person to deidentify with that role.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include anonymising, anonymize, anonymized data, anonymized dataset, redact personal data.
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