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Tiffz Backpackz De-identification Exercise

Tiffz Backpackz, a backpack company, has both personal information and non personal information. Based on guidance from the security and compliance team, engineering applied different de-identification techniques to the personal information.

Based on internal guidance,some personal information was anonymized while other personal information was pseudonymized. Anonymized data needs to be readable, and provide some information, but not enough to identify the original person. Pseudonymized needs to be un-readable and able to be transformed back to its original state.

Can you identify which de-identification technique was applied to the following data:

Data Table

Non personal information was not de-identified.

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Introduction to Data Privacy

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