Privacy

Privacy engineering

Terms

6 terms

  • Anonymization

    Anonymization is the irreversible transformation of personal data so that individuals can no longer be identified by any means reasonably likely to be used.

  • Data masking

    Data masking replaces sensitive values with realistic but fictitious or obscured ones so data can be used for testing, support or analytics without exposure.

  • Differential privacy

    Differential privacy is a mathematical guarantee that limits how much any single person's data can change the published output of an analysis or model.

  • Privacy by default

    Privacy by default means a system's out-of-the-box settings process only the personal data needed for each purpose, without any action by the user.

  • Privacy by design

    Privacy by design is the engineering approach that builds data protection into systems from the first design decision instead of adding it later.

  • Pseudonymization

    Pseudonymization replaces direct identifiers with pseudonyms so data cannot be linked to a person without separately held additional information.