Documentation

• important for auditing

• create an internal document and an external document

• internal document

  • should include description of technical solutions employed and risk management

• external document

  • crucial for transparency towards data subjects and for data receivers

  • changes to each variable need to be part of a data codebook

  • attention: no de-anonymization by accident in scripts

Exercise

Make changes to the data dictionary in accordance with the anonymization steps you made in this tutorial.

• extractManipData(sdc)
  Extracts the anonymized dataset.

• undolast(sdc)
  Reverts the last anonymization step.

• get.sdcMicroObj()
  Accesses internal components of the object.

Learning Objective

• After completing this part of the tutorial, you will know best practices on how to document your anonymization process.

Exercises

• Make changes to this codebook to document anonymization steps (show old codebook of exercise data)
• Include an exercise on writing an internal report of risk management?

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