After questioning the health worker for more details, NASA will strip identifying information from its database so supervisors cannot tell who reported what.
In that case, Lloyds agreed to pay $350 million to settle accusations that it had removed identifying information from transactions originating in Iran, Libya and Sudan.
University officials deleted the names and other identifying information from a letter that was released detailing the allegations; they cited privacy concerns and an N.C.A.A. request.
Facing increased attention, Kali decided to strip the group's NFO files of potentially identifying information; from now on, they would consist only of the date that the album was ripped and the date that it was due in stores.
At his computer, he pulled up a data set for me, scrubbed of identifying information, from a client that manages health-care benefits for some two hundred and fifty employers — school districts, a large church association, a bus company, and the like.
In January 2009, Lloyds TSB, another British bank, agreed to pay $350 million to settle accusations that it had removed identifying information from transactions originating in Iran, Libya and Sudan.
Mr. Lawsky pointed out in his order that it was impossible to know how the money was used because Standard Chartered deliberately stripped identifying information from the transactions.
*Why did the Reader's Digest Association go to the trouble of airbrushing the identifying information from a label on a pair of jeans worn by a man in a photograph featured in an ad for Reader's Digest magazine, but leave the red tab on the back pocket that tells everyone the pants are Levi's?
Valeria Allen, an insurance specialist at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said, "Someone is fraudulently impersonating or misrepresenting Medicare by telephone and by door-to-door visits to beneficiaries' homes, to discuss the Medicare discount drug program and to obtain personal identifying information from beneficiaries".
