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data masking

/ˈdeɪtə ˈmæskɪŋ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The careful obscuring of the production data, in the one environment, that a different team had already copied somewhere else.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The replacement of sensitive values with realistic but non-sensitive substitutes for use in lower environments.

Evidence

See also

anonymizationA claim made about a dataset roughly until the first person re-identifies someone in it for a conference talk.
data classificationA four-tier scheme under which everything is filed as 'Internal' to avoid the conversation.
shadow copyThe copy that the deletion request, the lineage diagram, and the retention schedule all politely declined to know about.
tokenizationA reversible privacy control whose entire safety rests on a vault that three integrations have read access to 'temporarily.'