Comment on The NHS is selling your private data – here's the price list [pdf]parentComments−UVB-7612yIt is exceptionally difficult, if not impossible, to properly anonymize this kind of data, and this particular dataset is absolutely not anonymized.−uxp12yHeh, mostly off topic: I just bought the book "Anonymizing Health Data"[0]. No significance to the article, just amused at the timing. Looks like this is going to be a problem domain moving forward with my career.[0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029229.do
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It is exceptionally difficult, if not impossible, to properly anonymize this kind of data, and this particular dataset is absolutely not anonymized.
Heh, mostly off topic: I just bought the book "Anonymizing Health Data"[0]. No significance to the article, just amused at the timing. Looks like this is going to be a problem domain moving forward with my career.
[0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029229.do