deidentify

UK /ˌdiː.aɪˈdɛnt.ɪf.aɪ/ US /ˌdiː.aɪˈdɛnt.ɪf.aɪ/
verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

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.

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.

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