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