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🧼 Making clean 💾 Removing private data
sanitization

sanitization

5.0
The act of removing or hiding personal information from data to protect privacy
  • noun
  • /ˌsænɪtaɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sanitización de datos
  • Before sharing the dataset with third-party vendors, they conducted a thorough sanitization to protect user privacy.

Examples

  • The company implemented data sanitization to ensure that no personal information was exposed during the audit.

  • This was clearly a case of interagency proofreading and sanitization to protect sources.

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  • All of my addsettingssection() and addsettingsfield() calls are dynamic, as is all of the user-input data sanitization/validation.

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  • Effective sanitization of sensitive data is essential for compliance with privacy regulations.

How De-identified

sanitization
  • Specialized
5.0
masking
  • Specialized
2 5.3
redaction
  • Formal
8 8.5
reidentification
  • Specialized
8.3

Surface Forms

sanitization singular
sanitizations plural

Morphology

sanitization = sanitize (semi-transparent) = sanitize + ation

Formally derived from 'sanitize' + '-ation', but the meaning is extended metaphorically to data/privacy contexts and may require domain knowledge.

Etymology

Sanitization comes from the old Latin word sanitas, meaning 'health', and shares the root sanit- with sanitize and sanitary. In data work, sanitization is 'making safe' by removing or hiding personal details so the information can be shared without harm.