[ietf-privacy] EU privacy regulators' comp.sci-literate rules on Anonymisation Techniques

Caspar Bowden <caspar@PrivacyStrategy.eu> Wed, 16 April 2014 22:04 UTC

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European privacy regulators today issued the highest quality regulatory 
paper I have ever seen Anonymisation Techniques

Storified version *here 
<wden/art-29-wp-opinion-216-on-anonymisation-techniques>* for gist, full 
text (37 pages) in first tweet

Recommended, especially for clarifying misconceptions about pseudonymity

The tl;dr is there's a whole lot of data being processed as "anonymous" 
which ain't (in EU law)

Caspar