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		adwf 17 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub That's the least of it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o All 500,000 participants for sale on Alibaba... And official response: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/a-message-to-our-participan...

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fastaguy88 1 hour ago [–]

BioBank claims (1) only de-identified data was available and (2) none of the data was actually sold before the datasets were taken down.

john_strinlai 1 hour ago | [–]

unfortunately for most people, de-identified data is typically a very short analysis away from being re-identified.

the field of de-anonymization is booming.

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