Synthetic Data Remains Identifiable Even After Removing Identifiers

A test reveals that synthetic data is not inherently anonymous: after removing all identifiers from a 200-person synthetic patient table, every record remained uniquely identifiable using just age, gender, zip code, and admission date.

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