pseudonymize

English

Alternative forms

• pseudonymise

Etymology

pseudonym +‎ -ize

Verb

pseudonymize (third-person singular simple present pseudonymizes, present participle pseudonymizing, simple past and past participle pseudonymized)

1. (computing, law) 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.

Derived terms

• pseudonymizer

Translations

depersonalize or anonymize data by one or more artificial identifiers or pseudonyms

• German: pseudonymisieren (de)