Re: <nettime> Torygraph: The Snowden privacy panic has spread to

[morlockelloi@yahoo.com]

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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