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Articles | December 9, 2024

Data Privacy, AI, De-identification, and Anonymization: Putting It All Together

In 2024, we shared several short articles about de-identified or anonymized data. Here, we take a look at how they intersect.

Articles | October 4, 2024

Why Context Matters When Anonymizing Data

If you’ve been involved in anonymization projects (such as Expert Determinations under HIPAA), you may have been asked to describe the data context in detail: how the data will be used, where it will ...

Articles | October 3, 2024

How to Work Safely with Unstructured Text Data

Unstructured data sources—including text, images, audio, and video—are rich sources of information. They can drive technological innovation and power diverse use cases such as synthetic data ...

Articles | July 30, 2024

Motivated Intruder Testing – What, How, and Why?

Many organizations are familiar with statistical assessments of identifiability, like Expert Determinations under HIPAA or anonymization assessments under other regulations like the GPDR. In these ...

Articles | July 5, 2024

10 Best Practices for Re-identification Risk Determinations

Re-identification Risk Determinations (RRDs) are assessments where an expert applies generally accepted statistical methods to determine how identifiable individuals are in a dataset. The expert will ...

Articles | May 1, 2024

Learn the Basics of Data Tokenization and Linkage

Increasingly, organizations are looking to link different data assets at the level of specific people to drive benefits for both business and society. To do this safely, they must also ensure they ...

Articles | February 28, 2024

Managing Risks Associated with Linking De-identified Datasets

When linking datasets from different sources to build out a rich and detailed data lake, some less obvious privacy and compliance impacts can arise, even if the datasets being linked are ...

Articles | February 27, 2024

Understanding Re-identification Risk when Linking Multiple Datasets

Many healthcare organizations pool datasets from different sources to build a more complete picture of a patient’s health and treatment. The resulting datasets are invaluable for gathering insights ...

Articles | September 20, 2023

3 Questions Healthcare Provider Organizations Need to Consider when Implementing Pixel Tracking Technologies

Online tracking technologies, such as pixels, have become a common feature of the modern web and app ecosystem. Pixels and other online tracking technologies may be configured to collect user data ...