There is a delicate balance to be achieved between the need and obligation to protect research participants and their personal data, and the importance of maintaining the utility and reusability of your data. In this blog post on the ODISSEI blog, Deborah Thorpe and Ricarda Braukmann look at the need for de-identifying data, the different ways of doing this, and some of the issues around balancing the competing interests of anonymity and reusability of data. Finally, they leave you with a number of tools to explore, which can identify information quickly, without compromising too much of the utility of the data.
Read the blog post here.
