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Anonymise

Regional Environment Agency North Sea Canal Area

Blacklining of privacy-sensitive information (AVG) in documents.

Last change on 30th of January 2024, at 9:16 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0
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Impactful algorithms
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Status
In use

General information

Theme

  • Public Order and Safety
  • Nature and Environment
  • Space and Infrastructure

Begin date

10-2019

Contact information

https://loket.odnzkg.nl/formulier/contactformulier/

Link to publication website

https://odnzkg.nl/algoritmeregister/

Responsible use

Goal and impact

The Environment Agency is keen to be transparent to its environment but also needs to comply with privacy legislation. Deploying this automation makes this possible, without requiring too much effort from employees.

Considerations

Using this automation will save an estimated 6 FTEs. There is a small margin of error: between 1 and 5% of the data to be anonymised is missed. However, data are also missed when anonymised manually. No distinction can be made between less and more sensitive files but hiring 6 FTEs for manual anonymisation is so expensive that the automatic method and associated risks were chosen.

Human intervention

Periodic spot checks are carried out to monitor the quality of anonymisation. As a result of the sampling, the quality of anonymisation can be adjusted.

Risk management

Here and there, privacy-sensitive information may not be blacklisted and non-privacy-sensitive information may be blacklisted. The risks are therefore either disclosure of information, which should not be allowed, or non-disclosure of information, which should. Random samples are used to track the quality of the software. This involves counting how many black bars have been missed and how much privacy-sensitive information has thus been wrongly published.

Legal basis

Environment Act and AVG

Links to legal bases

  • Omgevingswet: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/omgevingswet
  • Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0040940/2021-07-01

Operations

Data


External provider

TM7

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