DATDAT-002 — Data Privacy and Protection Failures
Anonymised Data Reidentification Through Feature Correlation
3/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: DevelopIngested: —
Executive Summary
Removing PII and SPI from datasets does not guarantee anonymity when residual features allow individuals to be reidentified through correlation analysis. Organisations relying on anonymisation as a compliance safeguard face material data protection liability and regulatory exposure.
Domain
Data Management
Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Risk Atlas (IBM2025) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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