Norway’s Data Protection Authority (DPA), Datatilsynet, has issued a guide on anonymising personal information, Privacy This Week reports. The DPA’s guide “provides practical guidance for data controllers on the considerations to be made prior to anonymising data and highlights Datatilsynet's opinion on the effectiveness of different anonymisation methods,” the report states. DLA Piper’s Cecilie Ronnevik notes the guide is needed because “Datatilsynet has, over the years, found that there are severe misunderstandings regarding the definition of identifiable personal data.” Along with anonymisation, the guide also considers the topic of pseudonymisation, the report notes.
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