Sanitization

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Sanitization can refer to

• Data sanitization, has two distinct meanings:
  • the use of anonymization and other techniques to "sanitize" (often statistical) data to purge it of personally-identifiable information in order to protect user privacy; such techniques include:^[1]
    • NULLing out
    • masking data
    • data substitution
    • shuffling records
    • number variance
    • gibberish generation
    • encryption
  • the removal of malicious data from user input, such as form submissions
• Disinfection, the destruction of pathogenic and other kinds of microorganisms
• Sanitization (classified information)
• Censorship, removing information from a published document

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References

1. ↑ Data Sanitization Techniques, a Net 2000 whitepaper