Why anonymization and de-identification models are useless in genomic data privacy?Anonymization techniques are used for preserve the individuals privacy. In genomic data privacy it is difficult to preserve the genomic privacy for anonymization techniques like suppression,generalization,etc...
Our genome itself is a barcode of our identity, and recent evidence has clearly highlighted how much of a challenging and daunting task anonymizing genomic data can be. Please see:
Article Identifying Personal Genomes by Surname Inference
Agreed. I would point to a paper from some years ago by Russ Altman and colleagues that shows only around a few dozen independent SNPs furnish enough information to identify an individual
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/305/5681/183.summary?ijkey=f5ed1957d6d15c8f8b9e5fbf059a4db039aebb52&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
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