Private Health Journal

Glossary · Data and interoperability

De-identification

anonymisation · pseudonymisation

De-identification

Regulatory

Removing 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