• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    By that logic you cannot anonymize a pic either. Yet everyone who has their photo taken cannot necessarily be identified in it.

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      1 year ago

      Can’t show a proof without doxxing me but I’ve written a patent to anonymize medical data (not genetic) and I’m a bioinformatician working with sequencing data.

      While you could probably achieve reasonable privacy levels by altering genetic data, we shouldn’t play with that under fallacious pretenses.

      You can use that data for medical research, of course… but also population profiling or stratification of customers if you are an insurance company.

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      1 year ago

      Anonymized data has long been problematic and you definitely cannot meaningfully anonymize a picture in the truest sense of the word.