QuestionQ21

Privacy Enhancing Technologies

To prevent other people from identifying an individual in a data set, privacy engineers use a cryptographically secure hashing algorithm. Using hashes this way demonstrates which privacy tactic?

  • A Isolation.
  • B Obfuscation.
  • C Perturbation.
  • D Stripping.
Explanation

Cryptographic hashing obscures an identifying value by replacing it with a derived value that does not reveal the original identifier, which is an obfuscation technique.

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