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Re: make query from a mysql db
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: January 14, 2020 10:37AM

Stefano, you did say that the table includes surname &c.

In the 1990s, Massachusetts released anonymised historical medical data on state employees for medical research purposes. A good progressive move, right? Individual privacy was protected by removal of individual identifiers like name, address, social security number.

A young graduate student said waitasec, if I cross-reference this data with drivers' licences & voter lists from public state records, I can match the anonymised medical data with names ages & addresses. To make the point she sent the governor of Massachusetts his medical history.

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