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Absolutely. They're doing a great job at UKAN!

True. For this reason, even anonymous data can usually not be shared as open data. You have to control the environment in which the data is used to control what is "reasonably like…

Also with synthetic data, there is an inherent trade-off between privacy risks and the usefulness of the data produced. However, this trade-off can be of a different nature, result…

In my experience, this is a question of interpretation (see e.g. Recital 26 and the question of what is "reasonably likely"). You can ask ten different experts, and you will get te…

True, Amnesia can also be run locally!

ARX (see other comment in this thread) also supports data anonymization for privacy-preserving machine learning.

If you're interested in tools such as Amnesia, you might also want to take a look at ARX, which supports much more anonymization methods, including Differential Privacy: https://ar…

ARX [1, 2] is an open source software that (among other features) supports most of the methods mentioned in this thread. Full disclosure: I'm one of the developers of ARX. [1] Webs…

While data de-identification surely has its limits, it is useful in many contexts. If someone is interested in tools for data de-identification, ARX [1, 2] is an open source softwa…