motivated intruder test

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Definitions:

The ‘motivated intruder’ is taken to be a person who starts without any prior knowledge but who wishes to identify the individual from whose personal data the anonymized data have been derived. This test is meant to assess whether the motivated intruder would be successful.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-188 from Anonymisation (ICO)

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