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6 Good Reasons to De-Identify Data

Friday, March 30th, 2012

De-identification is a great privacy tool for all types of businesses, of all sizes.  If you have personal data that you want to use for research, marketing, testing applications, statistical trending or some other legitimate purpose, but you don’t need to know the specific individuals involved in order to meet your goals, then you should consider de-identifying the personal data.  Even though it sounds complicated there are many good methods you can use to accomplish de-identification.  And the great thing is, (more…)