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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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anonymization

/əˌnɒnɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A claim made about a dataset roughly until the first person re-identifies someone in it for a conference talk.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Irreversibly altering data so that no individual can be identified, removing it from the scope of privacy law.

Evidence
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See also
  • data minimizationThe principle that lost, by unanimous vote, to a roadmap item called 'data we might need to train on later.'
  • re-identificationThe quiet proof that the word 'anonymized' was doing a great deal of unsupervised work.