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1. Zenst+Jb[view] [source] 2019-07-24 11:56:40
>>zoobab+(OP)
If they can pick out individuals from the data, then the data is not anonymized. Sure they may have unassociated data spread across unassociated records, but if an algorithm can pick it out, then so could a human (though way more effort). That for me is not anonymized data.
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2. Alexan+Ic[view] [source] 2019-07-24 12:07:19
>>Zenst+Jb
> That for me is not anonymized data.

What matters is that this is what most online companies (and their terms of service) would call anonymized data.

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3. q-base+qe[view] [source] 2019-07-24 12:19:44
>>Alexan+Ic
If they operate in Europe then I am pretty sure that the GDPR legislation is pretty straight forward here. If you can de-anonymize the data then it is by definition not anonymized.
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