Reply to post: Insufficient anonymization

UK.gov told to tread carefully with transfer of data sets to NHS Digital

Tromos

Insufficient anonymization

I will not grant consent for any of my medical data to be shared while a full postcode is part of the data. I understand location is useful for certain things such as tracing spread of infection, but a postal sector (postcode without last two characters) is more than sufficient for this. Given full postcode, gender and age decade, anonimity has largely gone down the plughole.

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