> Example data: smokes, has cancer, enlarged left atrium, is an electrical
> engineer.
>
> That data in itself is useless. This isn't some secret government
> organization thing, so no one really cares about it in the first place,=20
> nor
> is anyone targeting it, nor would anyone spend any time trying to get it.
> I'm just being over cautious about this whole thing by nature.

Ah, but the problem is that you might be able to identify a particular=20
person using other information. For example if you know that Donald Duck is=
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a smoking electrical engineer and there is only one such combination of=20
attributes in the database then you know everything about Donald Duck.

-- Bob Ammerman
RAm System

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