What does "pseudonymize" mean?

To depersonalize or anonymize (data); a procedure by which the most identifying fields within a data record are replaced by one or more artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms.

Pseudonymize

verb

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Verb

1
To depersonalize or anonymize (data); a procedure by which the most identifying fields within a data record are replaced by one or more artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms.

Etymology

From pseudonym + -ize.

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