deidentify

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To remove personal identifying information (PII) from data, sometimes preserving the…

   To remove personal identifying information (PII) from data, sometimes preserving the original identification data separately; to anonymize data (though it may be possible to reidentify via data aggregation and correlation).

   • So the first step in anonymizing microdata is to “deidentify” (anonymize) the microdata by removing identifiers such as name of business and address (Willenbourg and de Waal 2001; Ramanayake and Zayatz 2010), but this can still leave[…]
   • A fundamental problem with efforts to protect individuals from identification, Barth-Jones said, is that as more is done to deidentify or anonymize the data, the less useful the information is for statistical analyses.
   • You can anonymize or deidentify e-PHI by removing all of these identifiers. The modified data set is not e-PHI and is not subject to HIPAA regulations. As discussed in the HIE section earlier, this In the code injection attack, […]
2. 2

   To cease or forgo identifying (with).

   • […] will be perceived by others in terms of the imputed qualities of the role, thus making it more difficult for the person to deidentify with that role.
   • Differentiation in families requires that siblings be able to identify with some characteristics of their brothers and sisters, and to deidentify with others.
   • Second-boms are significantly more likely to deidentify with firstborns than with third-boms although they resemble both in age,[…]

The neighborhood

• neighbormisidentify
• neighborunidentified