deanonymization

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Etymology[edit]

de- +‎ anonymization

Noun[edit]

deanonymization (usually uncountable, plural deanonymizations)

  1. The removal of anonymization.
    • 2009 February 6, David Lazer et al., “SOCIAL SCIENCE: Computational Social Science”, in Science[1], volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 721–723:
      However, research revealed the potential for deanonymization, based on the statistical power of the sheer quantity of data collected from each individual in the database.

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