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The data would be anonymised. No one would be connecting your records to _you._

• totoroisalive 12y ago
  According to who?
• commandar 12y ago
  The anonymization rules for PHI are strict enough that it would make a lot of the interesting mining you could do difficult if not impossible. Specifically the restrictions related to dates and locations.
• deleted 12y ago
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• shaggyfrog 12y ago
  When "anonymization" is done poorly, it has consequences. It was bad enough with Netflix recommendations getting de-anonymized; imagine what could happen with actual health records leaked. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live...
• Goladus 12y ago
  It's a lot trickier than this. Suppose you have a rare genetic condition that affects 0.005% of the population. It takes very little additional information to single out a person when the first thing you do is rule out 99.995% of the possibilities.