I don’t see a great deal of difference between “No element may be left in the information which could, by exercising reasonable effort, serve to re-identify the person(s) concerned” (CoE) and “The DPA does not require anonymisation to be completely risk free – you must be able to mitigate the risk of identification until it is remote” (ICO)

Both approaches acknowledge that complete anonymisation is very hard to achieve. And of course there is a strong argument that fully anonymous data loses much of its utility.

Jonathan Baines

Complaints and Information Rights Officer

Legal and Democratic Services

Buckinghamshire County Council

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Subject: [data-protection] EU DP Handbook

A new handbook on European data protection laws contains a different test from the one used by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for determining whether data is personal or anonymised for the purposes of data protection law.

http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/dataprotection/TPD_documents/Handbook.pdf

Nic Drew

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Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board

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