deidentify
/ˌdiː.aɪˈdɛnt.ɪf.aɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove personal identifying information (PII) from data, sometimes preserving the original identification data separately; to anonymize data (though it may be possible to reidentify via data aggregation and correlation).
verb
To cease or forgo identifying (with).
Example Sentences
- "So the first step in anonymizing microdata is to “deidentify” (anonymize) the microdata by removing identifiers such as name of business and address (Willenbourg and de Waal 2001; Ramanayake and Zayatz 2010), but this can still leave[…]"
- "A fundamental problem with efforts to protect individuals from identification, Barth-Jones said, is that as more is done to deidentify or anonymize the data, the less useful the information is for statistical analyses."
- "You can anonymize or deidentify e-PHI by removing all of these identifiers. The modified data set is not e-PHI and is not subject to HIPAA regulations. As discussed in the HIE section earlier, this In the code injection attack, […]"
- "[…] will be perceived by others in terms of the imputed qualities of the role, thus making it more difficult for the person to deidentify with that role."
- "Differentiation in families requires that siblings be able to identify with some characteristics of their brothers and sisters, and to deidentify with others."
- "Second-boms are significantly more likely to deidentify with firstborns than with third-boms although they resemble both in age,[…]"
Etymology
From de- + identify.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de
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Derived Forms
Phrases
de-identification