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“One giant leap” or “Houston, we have a problem”? De-identification as a privacy enhancing tool

Photo taken from the back of the room Does de-identification have the potential to protect people’s privacy in large public data sets, or is it a privacy ‘unicorn’?

Experts arguing for and against de-identification as a privacy-enhancing tool debated just that question at our GovInnovate workshop on 16 November in Canberra — and revealed there is some disagreement on what ‘properly de-identifying data’ means.

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