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Is Big Brother Watching?

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: The New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1908881

Author(s)

Christopher G. Schwarz, Walter K. Kremers, Terry M. Therneau, Richard R. Sharp, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Prashanthi Vemuri, Arvin Arani, Anthony J. Spychalla, Kejal Kantarci, David S. Knopman, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Jr.

Identification of Anonymous MRI Research Participants with Face-Recognition Software: The authors demonstrated the ability to use facial recognition software to identify individuals undergoing head MR, highlighting the risk of loss of anonymity when seemingly de-identified data are available to others.