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Advanced Privacy Terms: Anonymization, Pseudonymization, & Tokenization

Anonymization, Pseudonymization, and Tokenization are vital methods of protecting personal identifiable information (PII).

A key benefit of these methods is that they allow you to operationalize your data for business use and while protecting the PII to ensure you don’t get fined by regulators. A best of both worlds approach.

Anonymization takes PII and makes it so it can't be used to identify anyone, while Pseudonymization replaces information with a pseudonym as if it were a CIA spy. Tokenization is like pseudonymization on steroids, encrypting your PII and replacing your pseudonym with an unrecognizable token.

Want to learn more? Download the White Paper “Anonymization, Pseudonymization, & Tokenization: How to operationalize data while still protecting Personal Identifiable Information.

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