Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To render anonymous.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word anonymise.

Examples

  • After nine months, Ms. Spain said, Google starts to "anonymise" the data it has collected by deleting the last two digits from the I.P. address.

    Privacy Digest - News that can impact your privacy. 2009

  • The new data retention policy is to "anonymise" IP addresses on its server logs after nine months, instead of 18 months.

    PC World 2008

  • Nicole Wong, Google's deputy general counsel, told a meeting of computer industry privacy experts at Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices that her company planned to "anonymise" the computer addresses of its users more quickly.

    ENN.ie 2008

  • "Under the new policy, Yahoo! will anonymise user log data within 90 days with limited exceptions for fraud, security and legal obligations," said Yahoo! in a statement.

    Internet News: Security and Privacy Archives 2009

  • And also it seems to anonymise them in some way by not prefacing the phrase with the pronoun 'my'.

    On Baby DC 2009

  • "Under the new policy, Yahoo! will anonymise user log data within 90 days with limited exceptions for fraud, security and legal obligations," said Yahoo! in a statement.

    Internet News: December 2008 Archives 2008

  • Curry's Podshow will be the first of the most successful Podcasting businesses, and with the same backers of G-evil, who knows - but I hope curry keeps pushing podcasting, and learns to anonymise/cache IP addresses, and he shouldnt have just deleted the entrys with Dave Winer and others input; What they did mattered.

    Brittney Spears leaves Kevin for Adam Curry Ben Barren 2005

  • Curry's Podshow will be the first of the most successful Podcasting businesses, and with the same backers of G-evil, who knows - but I hope curry keeps pushing podcasting, and learns to anonymise/cache IP addresses, and he shouldnt have just deleted the entrys with Dave Winer and others input; What they did mattered.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • Big enough so I figured I may as well continue with my blog, and not anonymise my comments in other places.

    Fighting the Good Fight - Total War Zoe Brain 2007

  • Ah, a problem: how does one un-anonymise onself so as to distinguish from previous anonymii?

    Friday Fun: This spam is ham Ms Robinson 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.