Privacy concerns in preventing fraudulent publication
- 4 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by CMA Impact Inc. in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Vol. 175 (1) , 61-62
- https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1060080
Abstract
The CMAJ editorialists state that the ethical and legal obstacles in doing so, such as “anonymizing” the data, can be overcome. However, rendering a data set anonymous is not a trivial matter. My experience in dealing with privacy issues in the context of research indicates little consensus within the research community as to what variables need to be stripped from a data set to render it truly anonymous. If anonymization is not done in an extremely conservative manner, the data set could be used alone or linked with other data to re-identify individuals. There is also the risk of re-identification of individuals through the publication of small sets of data.Keywords
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- Are journals doing enough to prevent fraudulent publication?CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006