Combining hospitalisation data with environmental data by address could risk the anonymity of health information.
But their celebrity will expose them to risks that anonymity would have spared them – floods of begging letters, for example.
After weeks of painstaking effort, he had what he thought was a foolproof way of reaching out to the Libyans without risking his anonymity.
Potential for harm in organisational case studies using participatory methods where there are risks to anonymity and confidentiality.
If small subgroup sizes risked breaching anonymity (for example, in relation to the doctor's ethnic group), we combined categories of the relevant variables (table 1).
On the one hand, customers of illicit and semi-licit goods and services, such as recreational drugs and prostitution, would risk losing their anonymity unless they were careful.
Fighting with rebel forces puts you on government watch lists, so if the plan was for them to become a terrorist they're running the likely risk of losing anonymity.
"We think there are significant risks to privacy, anonymity and free speech," she said, adding that the center is particularly concerned about the right of individuals, especially in less open countries, to publish online anonymously.
Full ethics review was not deemed necessary as the survey population did not include any at-risk groups and anonymity was assured to all respondents.
Ethical committee review was not deemed necessary as the survey population did not include any at-risk groups and anonymity was assured to all participants.
