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Pseudonymization — is a procedure by which all person related data within a data record is replaced by one artificial identifier (like a hash value) that maps one to one (comment: not necessarily; a hash is also not bijective. only injective property, i.e. mapping… … Wikipedia
Anonymization — is about the methods to achieve anonymity, i.e. the removal of a person related information that could be used for backtracking from, say, patient data to the actual patient. Anonymization is a more demanding task than pseudonymization, because… … Wikipedia
Pseudonymity — is a word derived from pseudonym, meaning false name , and describes a state of disguised identity resulting from the use of a pseudonym (also called nym). The pseudonym identifies a holder , that is, one or more human beings who possess but do… … Wikipedia
Anonymity — This article is about identification. For anonymity in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Anonymity. For other uses, see Anonymous (disambiguation) and Anonymus (disambiguation). Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning without… … Wikipedia
Anonymizer (company) — Anonymizer, Inc. is an Internet privacy company, founded in 1995 by Lance Cottrell, author of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer. Anonymizer was originally named Infonex Internet. The name was changed to Anonymizer in 1997 when the company acquired … Wikipedia
