Dec 24, 2024
This year, like the last, I was looking forward to synth maker Tom Whitwell's list of 52 things I learned in 2024.
Many interesting rabbit holes here but this one was particularily fascinating to me:
If you run one specific, but illegal, database query on a set of widely used health data, you can access Tony Blair’s entire personal medical history. Ben Goldacre
The linked part of the lecture is well worth watching, an interesting look on the dangers of pseudonymisation - replacing your actual name and address in a data set with a code name.