A landmark ruling without a sequel: What the EU court leaves unresolved on anonymisation (opens in new tab)

For more than a decade, debates around anonymisation have been marked by a persistent tension. European regulators have for long taken a cautious stance, stressing that pseudonymised data remain personal data because re-identification is always theoretically possible. Practitioners, by contrast, have long pushed back against this position, arguing that such a strict reading bears little resemblance to the way contemporary data systems actually operate and risks rendering anonymisation practic...