Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make anonymous, especially by removing or preventing access to names.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To render
anonymous ; especially to removedata that would establish theidentity of a person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The program could collect domestic data but would "anonymize" names and other identifying information with encryption codes until evidence was gathered to justify a warrant so that names could be revealed.
Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak 2010
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The program could collect domestic data but would "anonymize" names and other identifying information with encryption codes until evidence was gathered to justify a warrant so that names could be revealed.
Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak 2010
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The program could collect domestic data but would "anonymize" names and other identifying information with encryption codes until evidence was gathered to justify a warrant so that names could be revealed.
Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak 2010
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For today's edition of the NPR News program "Day to Day," I filed a report on Google's announcement that it will "anonymize" some search-related user data by stripping IP addresses from records after 18 to 24 months.
Boing Boing 2007
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Recently, more people in my real life have discovered the blog, and man, I wish I would have named myself Kate (because that's always what I wanted my name to be, anyway) and I could have called N something riotous and unfathomable (Dolan, knowing me and the way I "anonymize" names here) -- and I would have been fine.
blog: September 2008 2008
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Recently, more people in my real life have discovered the blog, and man, I wish I would have named myself Kate (because that's always what I wanted my name to be, anyway) and I could have called N something riotous and unfathomable (Dolan, knowing me and the way I "anonymize" names here) -- and I would have been fine.
blog: Aversion 2008
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Blogging about students, colleagues, and administrators raises further questions; I suspect, for example, that we are all familiar with non-anonymous bloggers who purportedly "anonymize" their colleagues, even though their actual blog posts make it painfully easy to identify who is who.
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Blogging about students, colleagues, and administrators raises further questions; I suspect, for example, that we are all familiar with non-anonymous bloggers who purportedly "anonymize" their colleagues, even though their actual blog posts make it painfully easy to identify who is who.
In person 2007
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The proxies "anonymize" traffic and bounce it to computers in other countries that send it along to the restricted sites.
FOXNews.com 2011
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Cory Doctorow warns that Web searches are more difficult to "anonymize" than is commonly believed, citing AOL's accidental data disclosure in 2006.
WN.com - Articles related to Tobacco Funds Shrink as Obesity Fight Intensifies 2010
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