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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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re-identification

/ˌriːaɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The quiet proof that the word 'anonymized' was doing a great deal of unsupervised work.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The process of matching supposedly anonymous records back to the individuals they describe.

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See also

anonymizationA claim made about a dataset roughly until the first person re-identifies someone in it for a conference talk.
data minimizationThe principle that lost, by unanimous vote, to a roadmap item called 'data we might need to train on later.'