Data Masking
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a form of data obfuscation that hides some of the original data (often to protect PII) — the data may still be fully intact in storage, just hidden from view based on permissions
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techniques
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substituting, shuffling, encrypting, masking out, and other methods
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distinguish from
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Tokenization — which replaces data with a non-mathematically-related placeholder, rather than just obscuring the view of the original data
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related