Quotes About Re-identification

While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.

When dealing with data, scientists have often struggled to account for the risks and harms using it might inflict. One primary concern has been privacy - the disclosure of sensitive data about individuals, either directly to the public or indirectly from anonymised data sets through computational processes of re-identification.