The UK’s data protection regulator, the ICO, issued guidance on anonymization and pseudonymization for public consultation in February 2022. The consultation will last until September 16, 2022: Website of the ICO for consultation
The guidance is a revision and expansion of an earlier ICO guidance on anonymization issued in November 2012 (“Anonymization: managing data protection risk – code of practice„).
For anonymization and pseudonymization, the following additional resources are available – not complete and in addition to various industry-specific recommendations and notes:
- Federal Statistical Office, Guidance on data protection when passing on individual data to third parties, 2006
- Position paper of the German BfDI, “Position Paper on Anonymization under the GDPR with Special Consideration of the Telecommunications Industry, June 2020.„
- Guideline of the Spanish supervisory authority AEPD (“10 misunderstandings related to anonymization„, 2021)
- Art. 29-Data Protection Group, Opinion 05/2014 on Anonymisation Techniques, April 2014
- Guidance from the French regulator CNIL
- Art. 29-Data Protection Group, Opinion 4/2007 on the concept of “personal data, June 2007
- bitkom, handout Anonymization and pseudonymization of data for machine learning projects, 2020