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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by privacylawthrow on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:43AM (#25277319)
> In my experience, this is a question of interpretation (see e.g. Recital 26 and the question of what is "reasonably likely").

This is absolutely true. The hard part is that was it "reasonably likely" changes as technology changes. It's entirely possible that a data set that qualifies as anonymous today will not be anonymous in 5 years. Organizations are responsible for the data they publish. If data loses its anonymity in the future due to release of other data sets and/or improved technology, the organization releasing the data will be responsible for the release of personal data, even if it wasn't personal data at the time of release.

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Re:Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization by m0nster on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:11AM (#25277709)
True. For this reason, even anonymous data can usually not be shared as open data. You have to control the environment in which the data is used to control what is "reasonably likely" (see also comment by La1n above).
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