On 7 February 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it had launched a consultation on Chapter 3 of its draft guidance on anonymisation, pseudonymisation, and privacy enhancing technologies (PET).
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The ICO publishes first chapter of its new draft guidance on anonymisation, pseudonymisation and privacy enhancing technologies
By Cynthia O’Donoghue & Sarah O'Brien on
The UK’s data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is calling for views on the first chapter of its anonymisation, pseudonymisation and privacy enhancing technologies guidance, available in draft here.
The guidance will help organisations to identify the issues they need to consider in order to use anonymisation techniques effectively. The guidance will sit alongside the ICO’s data sharing code of practice, which provides guidance on how to lawfully share personal data, and offers organisations an alternative way of using or sharing data through anonymisation.
The first chapter introduces and defines anonymisation and pseudonymisation, and places the concepts within the framework of data protection law in the UK.
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Article 29 Working Party releases opinion on Anonymisation Techniques
By Kate Brimsted, Katalina Bateman & Thomas C. Evans on
In April, the EU’s Article 29 Working Party (Working Party) adopted an opinion on Anonymisation Techniques (Opinion). The Opinion is designed to provide guidance for organisations on the use of common anonymisation techniques, and the risks that can be presented by them.
When data is truly anonymised – so that the original data subject cannot…