<p>We all have a duty to scan for questions displaying personal and identifying information and <strong>flag them for deletion</strong>. Even editing the question to remove data values leaves the edit history containing the data. I don't think the datasets in OP's question meet these criteria exactly, but I defer to others...</p>
<p>If we allow posters to violate likely compliance laws from their institution, then we denigrate the credibility of our site.</p>
<p>The two questions in OP's example have &quot;reproducible datasets&quot; that suspiciously contain &quot;age&quot; as a decimal. If one knows when the data snapshot was performed, one can backtransform &quot;age&quot; into a birthdate which is identifying. Age can also be identifying when it gets too old, say over 80 or 90, that when combined with another &quot;innocuous&quot; variable like sex and race, can also identify individuals in some cases. Different institutions have different requirements, no set of laws is complete nor completely required.</p>
<p>For reference, HIPAA has a defined list of variables that are considered personal and identifying:
<a href="https://www.hipaajournal.com/what-is-considered-protected-health-information-under-hipaa/#:%7E:text=Under%20HIPAA%2C%20protected%20health%20information,provision%20of%20healthcare%2C%20payment%20for" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.hipaajournal.com/what-is-considered-protected-health-information-under-hipaa/#:~:text=Under%20HIPAA%2C%20protected%20health%20information,provision%20of%20healthcare%2C%20payment%20for</a>
This is a partial list, I can identify someone for instance, with variables such as &quot;OwnsASpaceFlightCompany&quot; and &quot;OwnsAnElectricCarEnterprise&quot;. In the words of Mad Eye Mooney, &quot;Constant Vigilance!&quot;</p>
