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10,000 of them and they just want to ask is another -- what
is the prevalence of another gene in the population of
babies born in Denver in 1996 or something. They do not
have to know anything about it and that is truly an
anonymous sample.
It seems to me what you have described here is
something that would be more correctly described as the use
in an encrypted manner and to lump together something which
is anonymous with something which is encrypted is to me a
basic mistake and I would be very disappointed to see us
move in that direction.
I look here and I see -- this is a problem with
graphics rather than having text -- what I see here is
something which says it has a sample and on one side it has
the name on the sample and in another one it has a number,
and then it has something called "medical record," which on
one side has a name on it and another has a number on it.
Now you have made certain comments, Tom, and I
think this is relevant to David's comments a moment ago,
about what that information would be. But if we were to
literally publish this chart as our explanation of what it
meant to encrypt something I would say that simply
underlines to me the problem with calling this anonymous
research.