"Anonymized" means removing or disguising someone's personal information or identity so that they cannot be identified by others.
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We looked at two years worth of
anonymized data from life insurance applicants.
The winning entry will propose the use of appropriate principles and technical functionality for a solution to maximize both the privacy and security of confidential data and the generation and sharing
of anonymized data for Artificial Intelligence applications.
The Cardiff Violence Prevention Programme, which was set up in 2003, entails the capture of
anonymized information on violent incidents treated in hospital emergency departments.
So the researchers decided to do this,
using anonymized data from hospital records for the whole of England for the period 1999 - 2011.
These scientists have demonstrated they can often «reidentify» or «deanonymize» individuals hidden
in anonymized data with astonishing ease.
Earnest's analysis is based
on anonymized data from over 80,000 loan applicants across the United States, who represent an educated, tech - savvy, and upwardly mobile demographic.
Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to
share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project.
The Los Angeles team worked with
anonymized samples from aborted fetuses (after consent) from the University of Washington's Birth Defects Research Laboratory in Seattle.
These guidelines, outlined in the U.S. HIPAA rules, have allowed a multi-billion-dollar trade in
anonymized patient data to emerge in recent years, with data mining firms collecting dossiers on hundreds of millions of patients.
Silk Road provided the platform for the first real use case for bitcoin, with millions of dollars worth of
anonymized transactions occurring on the site month to month.
The women's details had been entered into the primary care General Practice Research Database (GPRD), which holds millions of
anonymized medical records for patients across the UK.
In crimes that seemed otherwise impossible to solve, Raleigh police began in March 2017 to send requests
for anonymized account data of anyone within range of the crime being committed.
Worse yet, it was discovered that the data was
not anonymized in any way.
This has led to several new ventures, including launching a new post-conception app and gathering
anonymized user information for use in studies for the medical community.
Based on data from the New York Fed's Consumer Credit Panel, a nationally representative sample drawn from
anonymized Equifax credit data, the report provides a quarterly snapshot of household trends in borrowing and indebtedness, including data about mortgages, student loans, credit cards, auto loans and delinquencies.
One of the biggest changes in the «Windows as a service» model is the reliance on telemetry, which involves
collecting anonymized information about how people use Windows and, critically, when and where the operating system fails.
The researchers analyzed entries to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink GOLD database, the world's largest repository of
anonymized records for primary care, plus information from the family doctor (GP) quality improvement scheme known as QOF, and figures on episodes of inpatient hospital care.
It's just a fact: Per a deep dive
into anonymized Policygenius data, applicants, on average, have lower rates of common health conditions including high cholesterol, diabetes, asthma and depression, than the national average.
«With this in mind, last year Facebook began discussions with leading medical institutions, including the American College of Cardiology and the Stanford University School of Medicine, to explore whether scientific research using
anonymized Facebook data could help the medical community advance our understanding in this area.
if so, we ensured that a notice to this effect was included on the cover page of the electronic source version, and the judgement was suitably
anonymized before the judgement was signed off for filing.
The applicant offered to provide access to
anonymized health information databases to the tobacco defendants, provided they agreed to the terms of an agreement whereby the experts of all signatories would have the same access and would be subject to the same restrictions.
Even in cases in which the wallet is identifiable, its contents appear to a layperson as endless strings of alphabet - soup characters —
anonymized representations of individual coins, transactions, and users.
Fandango
sells anonymized user data and has a partnership with Facebook to help sell tickets.
The reward for all that effort would be a potentially richer array of insights into a patient than from single - source files,
as anonymized patient data may contain pharmacy, claims, doctor, and even lab information.
The researchers note that these findings need to be viewed with caution because they are based on
anonymized aggregate outcomes, which do not allow adjustments for confounding patient characteristics, such as donor and recipient ages, infertility diagnosis, and embryo stage.
As these measures could and sometimes should be circumvented, I'm concerned about whether the government intends to crack down on
anonymizing services such as VPNs and Tor.
It is also worth noting that there is provision within the draft Bill to allow for the publication of Pensions Ombudsman decisions in
anonymized form (to date, only summaries of selected cases have been published by the Pensions Ombudsman's office).
Crypto is expressly trying to minimize both: through eliminating intermediaries that have traditionally been instruments of regulation; through dispersing transactions across jurisdiction lines;
through anonymizing transactions; through replacing story - telling (the mainstay of law and lawyers) with algorithms.
Google was served at least four sweeping search warrants by Raleigh, North Carolina police last year,
requesting anonymized location data on all users within areas surrounding crime scenes.
for myself, i never found the alpha listing of search results of much use, especially given the increasing numbers of
anonymized decisions.
But with
such anonymizing power made available for free, some less - than - legal (and even downright malicious) operations claim to operate successfully.
(Lawyers in smaller firms or sole practices with fewer clients might contribute to a secure and
anonymized database of other small - firm lawyers» clients to achieve the same ends).
Dozens of services exist, for example, that offer disposable credit card numbers to
help anonymize online transactions.
«Because the device gives users the option of voluntarily
reporting anonymized information on sex and age, we were able to estimate age - group specific incidence,» he says.
While some tobacco defendants entered into the agreement, the respondent brought an application for an order that the applicant produce
anonymized individual - level data from provincial health databases, which the Crown resisted, citing privacy concerns.
Like most
other anonymizing solutions, CoinShuffle protocols improve privacy and fungibility.
Will parents want their kids» voices recorded, even
if anonymized and used to improve products?
Now, as Chinese exchanges are gearing up to resume withdrawals under strict AML and KYC guidelines, the biggest question is whether users will be willing to jump through more hoops to buy and trade cryptocurrency or whether they will continue to seek alternatives instead, such as more anonymous P2P services or
even anonymizing cryptocurrencies.
Meanwhile, a Wake County district attorney tells WRAL that the data investigators have sought from Google contain only
anonymized account numbers without any content included, though it sounds from her comments as though Google has been complicit in supplying further information when forced to do so.
The leadership of Metropolitan Public Strategies, the firm running the campaign, are all former staffers with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has taken a tough stand on Airbnb and successfully requested that the
company anonymize data on 16,000 New York users of the site.
Even then, HomePod only
sends anonymized data; it's one of the benefits of a company that doesn't make data harvesting its central business model.
With regard to how the new personalized Skills will work, Amazon says that a user's voice profile will interact with skills individually using a unique
anonymized identifier.
«Provisional ballots» (say, for a voter who lacks adequate ID) are packaged in two envelopes, one with full voter information and the second (inner) one that is
completely anonymized.
Researchers looked
at anonymized patient records for 59,271 women taking isotretinoin aged 12 to 48 years in four Canadian provinces — British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario — between 1996 and 2011.
He is also working on projects aimed understanding how women cope with breast cancer diagnoses, by analyzing patterns among
anonymized Web search logs.
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