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Sure, sex and year of birth alone are fine. Why do you assume they won't be able to use the medical data to further de-anonymize it? "Male, 1993, records are fr
by jfrunyon 5y ago
Sure, sex and year of birth alone are fine. Why do you assume they won't be able to use the medical data to further de-anonymize it? "Male, 1993, records are from a hospital in Central Texas so he lives there, who has posted on social media about conditions x, y and z" would probably turn up... me.
- prepend 5y agoThat is exactly my concern. But that’s not what but my comment was about the false statement from Sweeney’s paper talking about zip, dob and no one considers that deidentified.