Friendly reminder: "the data are anonymised" is a claim…
Friendly reminder: "the data are anonymised" is a claim, not a property. Ask how. Ask who checked. Ask what happens when someone combines it with a second dataset.
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Friendly reminder: "the data are anonymised" is a claim, not a property. Ask how. Ask who checked. Ask what happens when someone combines it with a second dataset.
I review data flows for health projects quite often, and one sentence appears in almost every design document: "the data are anonymised". Then I look closer and the data are pseudonymised. The difference is not academic. Under the GDPR it decides whether the law applies at all. The two words Pseudonymised data are personal data where the direct identifiers (name, insurance number) were replaced with something else,…