Why ‘Anonymized Data’ Isn’t So Anonymous
Cleaning data of ‘personally identifying information’ is harder than you might think
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10 min readApr 24, 2019
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In 2015, Latanya Sweeney, a researcher who studies data anonymization and privacy, published research specifically targeting the deanonymization of HIPAA-protected data in Washington. In that state, (and many others), it is possible for companies and…