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As long as PII is not attached to medical metadata I really don’t understand the pettiness of these laws
by hankchinaski 3y ago
As long as PII is not attached to medical metadata I really don’t understand the pettiness of these laws
- danaris 3y agoLook up "deanonymizing" sometime, and you may see why people are concerned.
- tengbretson 3y agoWhen combined with the data the big tech companies already have access to there is no such thing as anonymous medical data.
- masfuerte 3y agoFor the medical data (not metadata) to be useful in models you usually need plenty of associated PII like dob, postcode area, etc. Overfit a model and it will act pretty much as a database lookup on your personal medical data. It needs to be regulated.
- JohnFen 3y agoThey're not petty, they're trying to address a genuine problem. First, the legal definition of "PII" excludes quite a lot of acutal PII. Second, even if there's genuinely no PII attached, it's pretty trivial to reidentify the data.