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INFERENTIAL RE-IDENTIFICATION [1 record]

Record 1 2023-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Security
CONT

... pseudonymisation, the replacement of identifiers with a code, enables linking of data where the correspondence between the code and the case is known, although data may still be vulnerable to inferential re-identification.

Key term(s)
  • inferential reidentification

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Sécurité
CONT

[...] plus le volume de données est important, plus les risques de réidentification par recoupement sont élevés. Des informations totalement anonymisées peuvent amener à l'identification d'une personne en fonction des informations relevées qui permettent de déduire le comportement, comme les habitudes de navigation sur internet ou bien les historiques d'achats en ligne.

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