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Anonymizing Indirect Identifiers to Lower Re-ID Risk

by Claudia Irvine

Quasi-identifiers, or indirect identifiers, are personal attributes that are true about, but not necessarily unique, to an individual. Examples are one’s age or date of birth, race, salary, educational attainment, occupation, marital status and zip code. Read More

Data Masking/Protection

Scoring Datasets for Re-ID Risk

by Dmitry Kulakov

One of the biggest concerns with releasing a dataset is the risk that a potential attacker can identify the owners of particular records. Even though masking or removing unique identifiers, like names and Social Security Numbers, can reduce that risk substantially, it may still not be enough. Read More

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Anonymizing Indirect Identifiers to Lower Re-ID Risk

Scoring Datasets for Re-ID Risk

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