Anonymity
What is Anonymity?
The state of being unidentifiable within a group of subjects, where personal data cannot be linked to a specific individual by any means.
Terms that appear alongside anonymity
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as anonymity. The number is how many controls name both.
- anonymisation 3 shared controls
- consent 2 shared controls
- data subject 2 shared controls
- gdpr 2 shared controls
- differential privacy 2 shared controls
- nist 2 shared controls
- synthetic data 2 shared controls
- purpose limitation 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern anonymity
What the standards actually require on anonymity
Requirements naming anonymity across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Give individuals the option of not identifying themselves, or of using a pseudonym, where lawful and practicable.
AUCDR-PS-2 · Privacy Safeguard 2 - Anonymity and pseudonymity →Give individuals the option of not identifying themselves, or of using a pseudonym, unless an exception applies.
APP-2 · APP 2 - Anonymity and pseudonymity →Where lawful and practicable, individuals must have the option of dealing anonymously or by pseudonym in relation to CDR data.
CDR-PS-2 · Privacy Safeguard 2: Anonymity and Pseudonymity →Security Dimension 8 Privacy per X.805 Clause 6.8: Privacy provides protection of information that might be derived from the observation of network activities.
X805-Dim8-Privacy-Identification-Network-Activity-Personal-Information-Confidentiality · ITU-T X.805 Security Dimension 8 - Privacy + Identification of Network Activity + Personal Information Confidentiality + Subscriber Anonymity + Pseudonymity + Anti-Tracking + Location Privacy + Data Minimization + GDPR/CCPA Alignment →Per APPs 2-5: anonymity + collection + notice. Requirements include (a) implement APP 2 - Anonymity and Pseudonymity - data subjects have option to deal with the entity not identifying themselves or using a pseudonym + (b) implement APP 3 - Collection of Solic...
AUPRV-2 · APP 2-5 Anonymity, Solicited/Unsolicited Collection, Notification →Anonymisation removes all means reasonably likely to be used to identify a natural person from a dataset; if successful the data is outside GDPR scope.
ENISA-DPE-3.1 · Anonymisation →Questions people ask about anonymity
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