e dataset, singles out a data principal.
</li></ul>
Note that often Quasi-Identifier and Indirect-Identifier are often considered the same way.
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<em>Modifying an element:</em> The de-identification process may determine that specific elements need to be modified to lower privacy 
risk. Some methods of modifying are: eliminating the element, setting to a static value (e.g. "removed"), fuzzing (e.g. adjusting by 
some random value), masking (e.g. encryption), pseudonym (e.g. replace with an alias), etc