deanonymization

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-der.

English de-

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Hellenic *ə-

Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)

Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥

Proto-Hellenic *ónomə

Ancient Greek ὄνυμα (ónuma)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos)bor.

Late Latin anonymusbor.

English anonym(ous)

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English anonymize

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English anonymization

English deanonymization

From de- + anonymization.

Noun

deanonymization (usually uncountable, plural deanonymizations)

1. The removal of anonymization.
   • 2009 February 6, David Lazer et al., “SOCIAL SCIENCE: Computational Social Science”, in Science‎^[1], volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 721–723:

     However, research revealed the potential for deanonymization, based on the statistical power of the sheer quantity of data collected from each individual in the database.

   • 2024 September 6, Riley Bailey, Christina Harward, Kateryna Stepanenko, Davit Gasparyan, Annika Ganzeveld, George Barros, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 6, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, The Institute for the Study of War:

     One milblogger forecasted that the Kremlin will directly mandate authorization and deanonymization of all Internet users in Russia by the end of the 2020s.

Translations

stroke of a brush

• French: désanonymisation (fr)
• Portuguese: perda de anonimato f