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Synthetic health data, taken seriously
Foundations · August 2026
What Is Synthetic Health Data?
Synthetic health data is artificially generated patient data that preserves the statistical properties of real clinical records without containing any real patient's information. H…
Read →Privacy Engineering · August 2026
Synthetic Data vs. De-Identification: Why the Difference Is Mathematical, Not Semantic
De-identification removes identifiers from real records and hopes enough was removed. Differentially-private synthesis generates new records under a provable disclosure bound. One …
Read →Regulation · GDPR · August 2026
Is Synthetic Health Data Anonymous Under GDPR?
Not automatically. The EDPB's July 2026 draft anonymisation guidelines treat synthetic data as anonymous only where identification is effectively precluded — and name differential …
Read →Privacy Engineering · August 2026
Differential Privacy in Healthcare, Explained for Non-Cryptographers
Differential privacy is a mathematical promise: whether or not any one patient is in the dataset, every possible output stays almost equally likely. What ε and δ actually mean, why…
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