Masking
A data protection technique that replaces real values with placeholders to conceal sensitive information. It preserves the format of the data while losing the specific content, and is considered a partially reversible form of de-identification.
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Redaction, masking, and tokenization are three common data protection techniques, whose core difference is: deletion (redaction) is irreversible, masking is partially reversible, and tokenization is fully reversible in authorized scenarios.
Masking replaces real values with placeholders, for example turning a phone number into 138****5678, preserving the format but losing the specific information.
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Redaction, masking, and tokenization are three common data protection techniques, whose core difference is: deletion (redaction) is irreversible, masking is partially reversible, and tokenization is fully reversible in authorized scenarios.
50%UnverifiedMasking replaces real values with placeholders, for example turning a phone number into 138****5678, preserving the format but losing the specific information.
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