Technical difficulties in ensuring anonymization Sample Clauses

Technical difficulties in ensuring anonymization. In the data protection protocol strict guidelines for anonymization have been suggested both at collecting centres level and the core Labs level. Some technical difficulties to ensure anonymization as described in D2.3 have been underlined by technical partners, in particular related to an understanding of the role of the core Labs different from the one at the beginning of the neuGRID project. The not originally foreseen possibility to upload data without interference of the core Labs makes quite impossible from a technical point of view to control the anonymization procedure applied to the data used in neuGRID. If these difficulties are confirmed, the anonymization guidelines could only be suggested to the users of neuGRID but it would be impossible to guarantee that the rules are in fact observed. In this case, a disclaimer regarding the different responsibility of neuGRID and the one of users should be developed. Moreover, the possibility of offering tools to the neuGRID users for performing anonymization will be evaluated. This point needs further discussion once the neuGRID project will be in a further step of implementation. In any case, each amendment of the data protection protocol should be submitted to the local Ethics Committees for approval. At the present the guidelines for anonymization in neuGRID are still the ones provided in D2.3.