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 could/should be part of a data codebook? (best practices?)

  • attention: no de-anonymization by accident in scripts

Learning Objective

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

Exercises

• idea: documentation of earlier anonymization steps

Resources, Links, Examples

To Do List