identify
verb (used with object)
to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of.
reidentify
-
a word derived from
identify.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The complaint alleges that those records contained time stamps that, when combined with Google’s access to geolocation and other types of data, could easily reidentify a patient.
From Slate
