To guarantee anonymity, NTDB data are purged of all identifying patient and hospital identifiers.
All identifying information (names, locations, person-identifiable information, etc).
Following initial data collection, all identifying information of the participants was removed and objective identifiers were used on the transcripts to ensure anonymity.
A number of protective measures were taken to maintain anonymity, including removing all identifying information and replacing unique personal identity numbers with randomly generated unique identifiers.
(Mr. Condon said he intended to crop out all identifying details).
LOCK IT UP Most thieves erase all identifying information from a phone within hours, sometimes minutes, after stealing it.
To protect his patients' confidentiality, Mr. Grosz says he has "changed names and altered all identifying particulars".
The first was 25,000 transactions, worth $16 billion, that surreptitiously involved Iran, though all identifying markers had been scrubbed, thus violating American transparency laws.
The economists crunch numbers from over 40m tax returns of people born between 1971 and 1993 (with all identifying information removed).
To ensure confidentiality, all identifying data were removed, and records were kept under lock and key.
For individuals wishing to remain anonymous, all identifying characteristics were stripped from their interview transcripts.
