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- 1IQVIA fined millions after health data 'anonymization' fails GDPR test●A healthcare company fined for thinking a secret code = anonymization. Narrator: it didn't. # DataPrivacy # GDPR # InfoS
Healthcare data company IQVIA has been fined 7.8 million euros after regulators found it failed to properly anonymize health data, wrongly treating coded data as anonymous. Commentators in the privacy and security community are highlighting the case as a warning that pseudonymized data is still personal data under GDPR, and a reminder that companies cannot simply assume coded health records fall outside data protection law.