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Data brokers’ products are notoriously easy to reidentify, especially when combined with other data sets—and that’s exactly what some academic studies are doing.

From Scientific American • Jun. 12, 2023

Like so much of the West, Miles says, her adopted hometown is “driven by people looking for an opportunity to reidentify themselves, and reinvent themselves.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2019

Such perturbations, also known as injecting noise, are meant to foil attempts to reidentify individuals by combining census data with other publicly available information, such as credit reports, voter registration rolls, and property records.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 4, 2019

Researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that if someone wants to reidentify an “anonymous” genetic profile, it is not that hard to do.

From Slate • May 4, 2018

I truly don’t know how easy it is to reidentify a patient, but Howard is keenly aware how important it is to protect patient identity.

From Forbes • Feb. 26, 2012