I Am Not Sure Why This Has All Of A Sudden Become News Again But It Sure Has!

This appeared last week:Re-identification possible with Australian de-identified Medicare and PBS open dataUsing publicly known information, a team of researchers from the University of Melbourne have claimed to re-identify seven prominent Australians in an open medical dataset.By Chris Duckett | December 18, 2017 -- 01:01 GMT (12:01 AEDT) | Topic: Security The dataset containing historic longitudinal medical billing records of one-tenth of all Australians, approximately 2.9 million people, has been found to be re-identifiable by a team from the University of Melbourne, with information such as child births and professional sportspeople undergoing surgery to fix injuries often made public.The team, consisting of Dr Chris Culnane, Dr Benjamin Rubinstein, and Dr Vanessa Teague, warned that they expect similar results with other data held by the government, such as Census data, tax records, mental health records, penal data, and Centrelink data."We found that patients can be... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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