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Re:Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to ... by nathanaldensr on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:13AM (#16771261)
I was wondering something similar. If Party B acquires Party A's anonymized-but-subject-to-HIPAA data and successfully deanonymizes it, who is liable? If the data is deanonymized, doesn't this mean the data wasn't sufficiently anonymized to begin with and Party A has some liability? Is Party B also liable since their goal from the start was to deanonymize the data?
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Re:Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to ... by leecarraher on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:07AM (#16772325)
Hopefully ICA susceptible De-anonymization techniques are no longer HIPAA best practice. Or perhaps this is a study to prove that newer additive and multiplicative techniques, are also susceptible to De-anonymization attacks.
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