{"id":3278,"date":"2023-08-11T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T06:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=3278"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:06:38","password":"","slug":"de-anonymisation","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/de-anonymisation\/","title":{"rendered":"De-anonymisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Synonym of <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/re-identification\/\">re-identification<\/a>, see, <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/anonymisation\/\">anonymisation<\/a>, <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/pseudonymisation\/\">pseudonymisation<\/a>, <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/confidentiality\/\">confidentiality<\/a> and <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/smallest-identical-subset\/\">smallest identical subset<\/a> for more on this hugely important topic! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/mar\/14\/confidential-health-records-exposed-online-uk-biobank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/mar\/14\/confidential-health-records-exposed-online-uk-biobank<\/a>\u00a0for a depressing example of a highly funded research project being incredibly na\u00efve about the potential for deanonymisation of research data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Tweaked to add more helpful cross links 26.xi.23, added link to Biobank article 14.iii.26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synonym of re-identification, see, anonymisation, pseudonymisation, confidentiality and smallest identical subset for more on this hugely important topic! See also\u00a0https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/mar\/14\/confidential-health-records-exposed-online-uk-biobank\u00a0for a depressing example of a highly funded research project being incredibly na\u00efve about the potential for deanonymisation of research data. Dates Tweaked to add more helpful cross links 26.xi.23, added link to Biobank article 14.iii.26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-3278","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":64,"total_views":"773","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3278\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}