reidentify
verb
re·iden·ti·fy
(ˌ)rē-ī-ˈden-tə-ˌfī 
-ə-
reidentified; reidentifying
: 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
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 Jet … 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
William L. Pressly
reidentification
noun
… the case hinged on the risk of "reidentification," or identifying individuals from apparently anonymized information.
—Patrick Cain
Patrick Cain
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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
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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
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“Reidentify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reidentify. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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