Glossary · Data and interoperability
De-identification
anonymisation · pseudonymisation
De-identification
RegulatoryRemoving or transforming identifiers so that a record can no longer be attributed to a person without additional information.
Pseudonymised data remains personal data in EU law; conflating the two is the most common compliance error in AI projects.
Context
SourceRegulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), Art. 4(5) and Recital 26; ISO/IEC 27559:2022