For data about EU citizens, it shouldn’t be possible to ‘single out an individual, link records relating to an individual or infer information concerning an individual’ without their consent – according to the GDPR. However, there are many situations where you need to use the data, for example, to facilitate software development, where you need to use real-world data but don’t have the necessary permission. That’s why data anonymization is crucial.
- You only need to change the obvious Personal Identification Indicators (PII)
- The difference between synthetic and anonymized data
- Confusing anonymization with pseudonymization
- Anonymizing data destroys the quality
- Keeping original data after anonymization
- Anonymizing one data set/occurrence
- All cases of anonymization are the same
- ‘Differential Privacy’ vs Anonymization
8 Fundamental Data Anonymization Mistakes That Could Put Your Business At Risk