anonymize

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English anonymous Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English anonymize From anonymous + -ize.

1. To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).

   “This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]”