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		jasonlotito on July 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: California moves to silence Stanford researchers w... Data aggregation does not guarantee privacy.

prepend on July 28, 2023 [–]

Of course not, but there are tests that can be applied to determine if privacy is protected.

It’s not possible to just aggregate and be done. But it is possible to set some privacy threshold and then insure that all records conform to that acceptable risk level.

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