deanonymization
nounEtymology From de- + anonymization.
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Usually The removal of anonymization.
- However, research revealed the potential for deanonymization, based on the statistical power of the sheer quantity of data collected from each individual in the database.2009 February 6, David Lazer et al., “SOCIAL SCIENCE: Computational Social Science”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 721–723:
- One milblogger forecasted that the Kremlin will directly mandate authorization and deanonymization of all Internet users in Russia by the end of the 2020s.2024 September 6, Riley Bailey, Christina Harward, Kateryna Stepanenko, Davit Gasparyan, Annika Ganzeveld, George Barros, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 6, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, The Institute for the Study of War: