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This information could invaluable to the medical research community as a whole and shouldnt have any adverse consequences for individual patients if suitably anonymised.

Currently I don't have sufficient information to judge whether I need to opt out or not so I'm withholding judgemeny.




Making that data truly anonymous so that you cannot de-anonymize it with other data sets is likely impossible. You would have to remove so much that the data becomes useless.


You can never properly anonymise data.




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