This is not the problem, but it would be interesting to see who is
behind declaring this to be a problem (or perhaps journalistic
incompetence is indistinguishable from malice).
A cursory search on "de-identifying" will provide insights about
technologies that have been around and have been used for a while (more
than a decade) to deal exactly with these issues:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-identification
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/De-identification/guidance.html
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/hipaa/de-identified/
On 2/8/14 8:26 , nettime's_institutional_review_board wrote:
<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/marthagilltech/100012335/the-snowden-privacy-panic-has-spread-to-medical-research-this-is-a-problem/>
The Snowden privacy panic has spread to medical research.
This is a problem
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