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Concerns raised about privacy, GDPR as Lords peer over Data Protection Bill

John Robson Silver badge

I really hope this isn't what is written...

"it will make re-identification of de-identified personal data unlawful"

If you can reidentify it then it wasn't de-identified (whatever that means).

Even ignoring that I suggest that we at least need an exception for research/security analysis - else you can't tell if you have actually anonymised the data.

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