Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases

Re:Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly ... by BerislavLopac on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:43AM (#20514151)

I would suggest "denonymization", implying that the "names" (i.e. identifiable information) were removed. As opposed to anonymous data, which presumably never had any to start with, like the example mentioned by the GP.

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Re:Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly ... by leetcrew on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:20AM (#20514954)

from an etymological perspective, this is kind of gross; you are grafting a latin-derived prefix onto a greek-derived stem. there's no direct Greek equivalent to the Latin "de", but you could consider "apo" or possibly "kata", both of which have similar meanings.

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Re:Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly ... by jobigoud on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @10:06AM (#20515395)

> I would suggest "denonymization"

Very very close to the existing "deanonymization" which is essentially the opposite.

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