anonymization
nounEtymology From anonymize + -ation.
1
The act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.
- This anonymization site is supposed to keep emails from being tracked back to you.
- This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data, and partly in recognition of the fact that in the future anonymisation will become increasingly harder as the application of AI to speech recognition continues to improve.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
- Derived terms
- deanonymization
- Related terms
- anonymizer