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Who said that proper anonymisation doesn't remove exact birthdates and fine granular location? Proper anonymisation techniques are much harder to attack.
by mda 7y ago
Who said that proper anonymisation doesn't remove exact birthdates and fine granular location? Proper anonymisation techniques are much harder to attack.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoAnonymisation after it's all gone to Google is rather moot, don't you think? Besides in this particular case they rode roughshod over both DPA and our entire structure of medical ethics and sent across entirely non-anonymised data. "proper anonymisation" is a set of goalposts that keep moving - it's like password length or bcrypt work factor. What's enough today won't be enough with CPU, or in a year or three, or perhaps a suitably fancy AI from the world's largest data hog. Proper anonymisation likely requires all associated data - any dates, blood group, medications, chronic conditions etc removing, hence mention of making it so bland as to be almost useless for study.
- mda 7y agoHeh you go on an on about an imaginary weak anonimisation technique then say all is moot and again go on and on about pure speculation, It is you who is moving goal posts.