Chapter 2
Identification, Deidentification, and Reidentification
Outline
Features of an Identifier System
Registered Unique Object Identifiers
Embedding Information in an Identifier: Not Recommended
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application the wrong names of things.
Baruch Spinoza
Background
Data identification is certainly the most underappreciated and least understood Big Data issue. Measurements, annotations, properties, and classes of information have no informational meaning unless they are attached to an identifier that distinguishes one data object from all other data ...
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