4. Re-identification risk

Focus group feedback

A person looking concerned.

Some things people were worried about:

A laptop with a lock. The screen says 'name'.

  • information like their name, could become known from the data

A laptop with an image of a brain, and the text, 'A I'.

  • if computers could put data together to find out who people are. When computers use their memory to do this it is called Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Commonwealth Partner comments

A laptop and a lock. The screen says 'name' and has a red cross.

No one will be able to use the data to work out who people are.

A Laws book. A person with their finger on their mouth; a tick; the word, 'private'

There are lots of ways to make sure private information is not known, like the ‘separation principle’.

A person looking through a magnifying glass. A laptop that says, 'Name Work' and a red cross.

The ‘separation principle’ is a way to make sure personal information, like names and addresses, are kept apart from information that is looked at like data about whether a person is working or studying.

A laptop. On the screen it says 'name' with a green tick, and 'work' with a red cross.

No one can see or use both kinds of information at the same time.

The separation principle must be used by people approved to work on the data.

A person holding a clipboard with a tick. They are giving a thumbs up.

The partners agreed to look at ways we check that we keep data safe into the future.