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So by itself, medical data by birth year is not enough to identify a person. It's just statistics. Same as by race, or any other single characteristic. But whe

So by itself, medical data by birth year is not enough to identify a person. It's just statistics. Same as by race, or any other single characteristic. But when combined, and matched against the kind of individual detailed data that Google or Facebook have about most of the population, it's a lot less anonymous.

KaiserPro 8y ago
In the old Data protection Act, it was any data when combined with public records. In the new GDPR, as far as I'm aware, its the _act_ of trying to combine/process (not sure of the exact wording) to de-anonymise