deidentify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dē'-ī-dĕntʹ-ĭf-ī
ipa: /ˌdiː.aɪˈdɛnt.ɪf.aɪ/
rhymes: -ɛntɪfaɪ
Forms: form: deidentifies
form: deidentifying
form: deidentified
form: deidentified
form: de-identify
Etymology: From de- + identify.
Senses: examples: text: So the first step in anonymizing microdata is to “deidentify” (anonymize) the microdata by removing identifiers such as name of business and address (Willenbourg and de Waal 2001; Ramanayake and Zayatz 2010), but this can still leave[…]
ref: 2013 July 1, Ger Snijkers, Gustav Haraldsen, Jacqui Jones, Diane Willimack, Designing and Conducting Business Surveys, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: A fundamental problem with efforts to protect individuals from identification, Barth-Jones said, is that as more is done to deidentify or anonymize the data, the less useful the information is for statistical analyses.
ref: 2016 May 29, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Principles and Obstacles for Sharing Data from Environmental Health Research: Workshop Summary, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 52:
text: You can anonymize or deidentify e-PHI by removing all of these identifiers. The modified data set is not e-PHI and is not subject to HIPAA regulations. As discussed in the HIE section earlier, this In the code injection attack, […]
ref: John T. Finnell, Clinical Informatics Study Guide: Text and Review (Springer Nature, page 153
antonyms: identify
reidentify
glosses: To remove personal identifying information (PII) from data, sometimes preserving the original identification data separately; to anonymize data (though it may be possible to reidentify via data aggregation and correlation).
examples: text: […] will be perceived by others in terms of the imputed qualities of the role, thus making it more difficult for the person to deidentify with that role.
ref: 2000, Blake Ashforth, Role Transitions in Organizational Life: An Identity-based Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Differentiation in families requires that siblings be able to identify with some characteristics of their brothers and sisters, and to deidentify with others.
ref: 2014, John V Caffaro, John V. Caffaro, Allison Conn Caffaro, Sibling Abuse Trauma: Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Children, Families, and Adults, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Second-boms are significantly more likely to deidentify with firstborns than with third-boms although they resemble both in age,[…]
ref: 2014, M. E. Lamb, B. Sutton-Smith, Brian Sutton-Smith, Michael E. Lamb, Sibling Relationships: their Nature and Significance Across the Lifespan, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 133:
text: Conversely, there is a tendency to deidentify with low-status social groups, but only when group boundaries are permeable […]
ref: 2016, Jas M. Sullivan, William E. Cross Jr., Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 278:
text: (1956) additionally proposed a social-adjustment function, which reflects attitudes that help to identify with those we like and deidentify with those we [dislike].
ref: 2018, Kay Deaux, Mark Snyder, The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 448:
glosses: To cease or forgo identifying (with).
Derived terms: deidentification
de-identification
Related terms: misidentify
unidentified