If the researchers cannot figure out the identity of individual participants by looking at the data, that work is confidential.

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Confidentiality refers to the treatment of information that an individual has disclosed in a relationship of trust with the expectation that it will not be divulged to others without permission in ways that are inconsistent with the understanding of the original disclosure. If researchers cannot figure out the identity of individual participants by looking at the data, the work is considered anonymized, not just confidential. Confidentiality is about how information is treated, while anonymization refers to the state of the data being such that individual participants cannot be identified.

If the Researchers Cannot Figure Out the Identity of Individual