How to Use anonymize in a Sentence

anonymize

verb
  • Finally, one theme that came up more than once was how deep fakes could help us to anonymize ourselves.
    Tracey Follows, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • For the last few years, a slew of start-ups and Google have come to health systems offering to anonymize, organize, and sell their data to pharma.
    Bryan Roberts, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Plaintiffs in the case, some of whose names have been anonymized, allege they were detained for months and years at a time and subjected to constant surveillance.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • To allay that fear, researchers anonymize genomes and follow health privacy laws.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • There was no way to anonymize my identity in a data set like geolocation.
    Byron Tau, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Once the full network of hundreds of cameras is built, QuayChain will have an ongoing contract to manage and anonymize the data.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • The answers are then anonymized, randomized, and rated by a panel of hiring managers to prevent any bias.
    Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 May 2023
  • On the blog itself, comments are public and people often anonymize themselves.
    Sarah Scoles, Longreads, 8 June 2018
  • However, hashing does not anonymize data for the tech platforms that receive it and match it to user profiles.
    Katie Palmer, STAT, 13 Dec. 2022
  • To get airlines onboard, IATA took pains to anonymize every datapoint, and does not share its database with the public.
    Nicolas Rivero, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Even if this data is somehow anonymized and aggregated, chances are those in the market for a new vehicle might want to take a closer look.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Ad blockers are great for a more enjoyable experience when browsing the Web, and new types of browsers that anonymize your data could help further.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Look out for loopholes the app may be using, such as claiming to de-identify or anonymize personal data.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • Gratuitous surveillance would be banned—and after collecting data, firms would be forced, by default, to get rid of it, or fully anonymize the rest of it.
    Tim Wu, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The Boston Globe announced a new program that will allow people to ask the newspaper to update or anonymize past coverage of them online.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • To protect both the author’s privacy and the defendants’ proprietary secrets, the details were anonymized.
    Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 8 Feb. 2023
  • If your visit to a website genuinely only discloses your cohort ID, then that could anonymize you.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 3 July 2021
  • Responses will be used in an analysis that will anonymize those who provide feedback. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Protesters also took other steps to anonymize their movements.
    Jane Li, Quartz, 13 June 2019
  • Using Tor to encrypt and anonymize your communications with us.
    NBC News, 1 July 2020
  • Does your company take steps to anonymize user data when it is used for its own purposes, shared with service providers, or shared with non-service provider third parties?
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In many markets, including the United States, Uber has the technology to act as a middleman and anonymize contact details during calls and texts.
    Jordan Golson, Car and Driver, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Given that history, the question of how much to anonymize a patient in these tales is well-trod territory for medical ethicists.
    Rose Eveleth, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Samples are now anonymized before researchers can use them, thus maintaining donor privacy to linked health data.
    Kimberly M. Baker, STAT, 7 June 2023
  • The subjects were anonymized but recognizable to anyone who had followed the story of Trump’s entanglement with The Enquirer.
    Lachlan Cartwright, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Because of this architecture, E2open can access, aggregate, and anonymize the data across their customer base.
    Steve Banker, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But per Bloomberg, Walmart promises its data is anonymized, or stripped of identifying details that could be tied back to specific patients.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Ram asked the university to anonymize University of Arizona’s student ID cards so that the school could examine where freshman students check in.
    Charlie Lapastora, Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • As synthesizers’ sample packs gained prominence, though, those sounds became anonymized, their provenance dating back only as far as the plugin kit.
    Peter Rubin, Longreads, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The researchers went on to say that more traditional ways to anonymize illicit online behavior may have fallen out of favor with some criminals.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Mar. 2024

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