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to disidentify

to disidentify

9.5
Remove personal details from data so a person cannot be easily found
  • verb
  • /ˌdɪsˈaɪdɛntɪfaɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desidentificar
  • To ensure confidentiality, the study team will disidentify all participant records.

Examples

  • All personal information was disidentified before the research results were published.

  • The company decided to disidentify the user data to protect customer privacy.

  • So the process of disidentifying it, so you can see it and name it there, there, there are little quips here.

Synonyms

to anonymize
vsto disidentify
  • Specialized
1 6.3

Remove or hide personal details so a person cannot be recognized

focuses on removing identifiers specifically to protect individual identity in records
to depersonalize
vsto disidentify
  • Specialized
7.0

Remove names and other personal details from records so people cannot be identified

is the broader removal of identifying information from data or records
to file off the serial numbers
vsto disidentify
  • NSFW
9.4

Remove or hide marks that show where something comes from

applies more generally to data and records rather than physical marks

How Anonymous

to anonymize
  • Specialized
1 6.3
to disidentify
  • Specialized
9.5
to redact
  • Formal
35 7.5

Surface Forms

disidentify infinitive
disidentified past
disidentified past participle
disidentifying present participle
disidentifies third person singular

Morphology

disidentify = identify (semi-transparent) = dis + ident + ify

It is understandable as reversing identification, but the specific sense of anonymizing data or records is a specialized extension rather than the most automatic learner inference.

Etymology

Disidentify combines the prefix dis- ('not' or 'remove') with identify ('to show who someone or something is'). Think of erasing a name tag: to disidentify data is to remove personal details and make it anonymous.