deidentify

• de-identify

From de- +‎ identify.

• enPR: dē'-ī-dĕntʹ-ĭf-ī, IPA^(key): /ˌdiː.aɪˈdɛnt.ɪf.aɪ/
• Hyphenation: de‧i‧dent‧if‧y
• Rhymes: -ɛntɪfaɪ

deidentify (third-person singular simple present deidentifies, present participle deidentifying, simple past and past participle deidentified)

1. To remove personal identifying information from data, sometimes preserving the original identification data separately; to anonymize data (though it may be possible to reidentify).
   • 2013 July 1, Ger Snijkers; Gustav Haraldsen; Jacqui Jones; Diane Willimack, Designing and Conducting Business Surveys, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     So the first step in anonymizing microdata is to “deidentify” (anonymize) the microdata by removing identifiers such as name of business and address (Willenbourg and de Waal 2001; Ramanayake and Zayatz 2010), but this can still leave […]

   • 2016 May 29, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Principles and Obstacles for Sharing Data from Environmental Health Research: Workshop Summary, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 52:

     A fundamental problem with efforts to protect individuals from identification, Barth-Jones said, is that as more is done to deidentify or anonymize the data, the less useful the information is for statistical analyses.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John T. Finnell, Clinical Informatics Study Guide: Text and Review (Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 153:

     You can anonymize or deidentify e-PHI by removing all of these identifiers. The modified data set is not e-PHI and is not subject to HIPAA regulations. As discussed in the HIE section earlier, this In the code injection attack, […]

2. To cease or forgo identifying (with).
   • 2000, Blake Ashforth, Role Transitions in Organizational Life: An Identity-based Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN, page 104:

     […] will be perceived by others in terms of the imputed qualities of the role, thus making it more difficult for the person to deidentify with that role.

   • 2014, John V Caffaro; John V. Caffaro; Allison Conn Caffaro, Sibling Abuse Trauma: Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Children, Families, and Adults, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Differentiation in families requires that siblings be able to identify with some characteristics of their brothers and sisters, and to deidentify with others.

   • 2014, M. E. Lamb; B. Sutton-Smith; Brian Sutton-Smith; Michael E. Lamb, Sibling Relationships: their Nature and Significance Across the Lifespan, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 133:

     Second-boms are significantly more likely to deidentify with firstborns than with third-boms although they resemble both in age, […]

   • 2016, Jas M. Sullivan; William E. Cross Jr., Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 278:

     Conversely, there is a tendency to deidentify with low-status social groups, but only when group boundaries are permeable […]

   • 2018, Kay Deaux; Mark Snyder, The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 448:

     (1956) additionally proposed a social-adjustment function, which reflects attitudes that help to identify with those we like and deidentify with those we [dislike].

• deidentification, de-identification