reidentify

verb

re·iden·ti·fy (ˌ)rē-ī-ˈden-tə-ˌfī

-ə-

reidentified; reidentifying

transitive verb

: to identify (someone or something) again

Cookies were first cooked up as a convenient way to make return visits to Web sites without having to reidentify yourself or your preferences.—

Kiplinger's Personal Finance

also : to give a new or different identity to

Reidentified by false names, they can never contact anyone who knew them before … —

Jet

—often + as

… when the work reemerged in 1967 it was sold at Sotheby's as Fuseli's portrait of Cartwright, but it was immediately reidentified as a self-portrait. —

William L. Pressly

reidentification

(ˌ)rē-ī-ˌden-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən

-ə-

noun

… the case hinged on the risk of "reidentification," or identifying individuals from apparently anonymized information. —

Patrick Cain

Examples of reidentify in a Sentence

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The data could be used to reidentify users who sought services from the provider. —

Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 3 July 2022 In three of the five cases, the companies' policies did not have clear language about third-party tools that might be used to retarget or reidentify users across the web for marketing. —

Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 6 Feb. 2022