Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders, Budapest, 20-21 October 2016

Session D5: Anonymity and re-identification risks
Description	Even if direct identifiers are removed from microdata files, there is always the risk that a combination of variables of interest corresponds to a single individual. If these variables can be known to a third party, there is the risk of indirect identification of that individual. At what point do we consider that anonymity is broken? Can these files continue to be disseminated in spite of this identification risk? If so, how to continue to protect the anonymity of people? At this session, these, and related, questions will be discussed.
Organisers	Gerard Biau (French Statistical Society and INSEE)
Chair	Jean-Pierre Le Gléau (Former head of the coordination department of the INSEE)
Presentation #1	Anonymity and re-identification risks: an overview Jean-Pierre Le Gléau (Former head of the coordination department of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies)
Presentation #2	Working Party 29 and CNIL point of view on anonymisation Amandine Jambert (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés)
Presentation #3	Anonymity and risk of re-identification of health data Dominique Blum (Secure Data Access Centre)
Presentation #4	Widening access to confidential microdata in France Kamel Gadouche (Secure Data Access Centre)

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