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Re:California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got ... by Zetice on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:26PM (#36909306)
To add to this, PII isn't always even clear. Different jurisdictions identify PII differently, there isn't One Master Definition that you pass a unit of data through, upon which an authoritative "THIS IS PII" or "THIS ISNT PII" is returned.
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Re:California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got ... by orzig on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:43PM (#36909570)
+1

We had a multi-month project to get a subset of our data considered 'clean', and it required a consultant, a stats PhD and many dev hours. It was healthcare, so on the high end of paranoia (justifiably) but nowhere it is as simple as dropping the "name" column

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