Ten quick tips for protecting health data using de-identification and perturbation of structured datasets

• Tshikala Eddie Lulamba,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

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• Themba Mutemaringa,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, Provincial Health Data Centre (PHDC), Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness, Cape Town, South Africa, Computational Biology Division, Integrative Biomedical Sciences Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2857-7197

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• Nicki Tiffin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ntiffin@uwc.ac.za

  Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5083-2735

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