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Re-identification Risks in HIPAA Safe Harbor Data: A study of data from one environmental health study. HIPAA安全港数据中的重新识别风险：对一项环境健康研究数据的研究。

Technology science Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Epub Date: 2017-08-28

Latanya Sweeney, Ji Su Yoo, Laura Perovich, Katherine E Boronow, Phil Brown, Julia Green Brody

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