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Privacy Maintenance

Manage computer cache, cookies, and logs to maintain your privacy as well as shred sensitive files to prevent recovery. BleachBit can help.

De-identification Tools

Tools to use to de-identify personal attributes in data sets.

ARX

Recommended to anonymize sensitive personal information in tabular data. Download ARX and manage privacy risks.

deid

deid scrubs free-text records by masking or removing identifiers. The package includes the code and dictionaries for automated location and removal of protected health information (PHI).

The app requires prior Perl 5 (or later) installation. For mac users, no need for further installation. For Windows users, please use “perl -v” command on the commandline to check if Perl is available. If not, please install this.

Download, install, and run the app.

Finetune the app for your needs by modifying its dictionaries and lists of names and other identifiers.

Deidentify

De-identification (by preudonymization) of free-text medical records involving Protected Health Information according to HIPAA Privacy Rules. “Detected identifiers are replaced by randomly generated substitutes. Consistency of the data is preserved as the same name, phone number or location will always be mapped to the same replacement.”

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This app requires prior Java installation. Check here to verify if your computer has Java.

Deidentify is a buggy app. But it's a good code base for further development. If “Process File” option doesn't work, use “Batch Process” instead.

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