What Strategy Involves Hiding Data in a Data Set to Prevent

question 19

Multiple Choice

What strategy involves hiding data in a data set to prevent someone from identifying specific individuals based on other data fields present?

• A) Anonymization
• B) Tokenization
• C) Masking
• D) Obfuscation

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