Reply to post: Re: genuinely anonymous, not just “anonymised”

Patients must know how their health records are used – and approve any sharing for research

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Re: genuinely anonymous, not just “anonymised”

>Anyone working with datasets knows that anonymised data can easily be de-anonymised. The higher the level of detail in a dataset, the easier it is to find unique points that can trace back to individuals.

This. And the fact that datasets can be combined and once they are, what appeared "securely" anonymous in only one of them may not remain so after the data is combined.

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