masking

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Definitions:

The process of systematically removing a field or replacing it with a value in a way that does not preserve the analytic utility of the value, such as replacing a phone number with asterisks or a randomly generated pseudonym.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-188 from El Emam, et al

the process of systematically removing a field or replacing it with a value in a way that does not preserve the analytic utility of the value, such as replacing a phone number with asterisks or a randomly generated pseudonym
Sources:
NISTIR 8053 from El Emam, et al

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