Genomic information is becoming increasingly useful for studying the origins of disease. Recent studies have focused on discovering new genetic loci and the influence of these loci upon disease.
Often a data holder, such as a hospital or bank, needs to share person-specific records in such a way that the identities of the individuals who are the subjects of the data cannot be determined.
This paper draws implications for technology policy from evidence on the size distribution of returns from eight sets of data on inventions and innovations attributable to private sector firms and uni
We present a computer program named Data y that maintains anonymity in medical data by automatically generalizing, substituting, inserting and removing information as appropriate with- out losing many
We define a new approach to locating and replacing personally-identifying information in medical records that extends beyond straight search-and-replace procedures, and we provide techniques for minim
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