On 12/11/12 13:35, Katie Chan wrote:
Who's going to do the anonymousing? When it happens in a job
application (for a large enough company), the company (HR) still see
the data, it's just that the persons making the hiring decision doesn't.
Indeed.
Who would do it? Maybe Wikimedia UK could use software. Or a third party.
In health research, most data is made anonymous by research assistants,
who are real people. Sometimes, they might also process the data a
second time. Taking a set of identity keys into the data and then make
that set of keys anonymous a second time. At this point, all traces of
the actual identity are very well hidden, and data can then be sent to
other agents in studies (e.g. external GPs) for processing.
Gordo