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/ˌdiː.aɪˈdɛnt.ɪf.aɪ/
Verb
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).
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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, […]
To cease or forgo identifying (with).
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[…] 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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Second-boms are significantly more likely to deidentify with firstborns than with third-boms although they resemble both in age,[…]
Conversely, there is a tendency to deidentify with low-status social groups, but only when group boundaries are permeable […]
(1956) additionally proposed a social-adjustment function, which reflects attitudes that help to identify with those we like and deidentify with those we [dislike].