Management Speak

[Flick of the Elbow]

This week's new word - pseudonymised. As in pseudonymised data. What was wrong with simply obfuscated ?

 

[youngoldbloke]

This week's new word - pseudonymised. As in pseudonymised data. What was wrong with simply obfuscated ?

- it means something completely different.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

- it means something completely different.

Yes ? And ? You can't just leave us on a cliffhanger like that - do tell

 

[Drago]

The people that come up with the crap are The Golgafrinchams.

 

[youngoldbloke]

obfuscate
verb
past tense: obfuscated; past participle: obfuscated
make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.

whereas:

pseudonymized
adjective
(computing, of data) depersonalised

 

[youngoldbloke]

- not to be confused with anonymisation of course http://privacylawblog.fieldfisher.c...s-great-but-dont-undervalue-pseudonymisation/

 

[Drago]

NHS is full of Golgafrinchams.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

obfuscate
verb
past tense: obfuscated; past participle: obfuscated
make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.

whereas:

pseudonymized
adjective
(computing, of data) depersonalised

Thanks. Still not getting it though. The context in which I've heard it is test data. We would normally use extracts from live for this. But there's a EU directive about to take effect which would effectively prevent this. So we will now have to pseudonymise the data so individuals can't be identified. But how is that different from obfuscating the names of the individuals?

 

[Profpointy]

Thanks. Still not getting it though. The context in which I've heard it is test data. We would normally use extracts from live for this. But there's a EU directive about to take effect which would effectively prevent this. So we will now have to pseudonymise the data so individuals can't be identified. But how is that different from obfuscating the names of the individuals?

Taken literally, a pseudonym could, at least in theory, be back tracked to the original. Obfuscated would be to simply scramble the names or partly blank them out. Redacted would be to completely blank them out. Of course, any of these terms could mean something slighlty different in orqctice

 

[Maverick Goose]

'Migrate' seems to be increasingly popular-as in "we're migrating all our IT systems to the new server farm".

 

[mustang1]

Don't worry Mustang if you are working on important stuff. Forget the less important, just work on the important items.

Ok then.

Hey Mustang this stuff is being escalated. You gotta work on this less important stuff too, which also happens to be important.

Whut?

 

[pplpilot]

my employer is buzzword/management speak/acronym central. And I kid you not they have an online dictionary for it. I refuse to be part of it, someone will come out with a new one then before you know it everyone his using it until the next one...

 

[Profpointy]

I didn't get where I am today by beating about the bush with cliches. You can beat about the bush with cliches till the cows come home

 

[ColinJ]

Don't worry Mustang if you are working on important stuff. Forget the less important, just work on the important items.

Ok then.

Hey Mustang this stuff is being escalated. You gotta work on this less important stuff too, which also happens to be important.

Whut?

Let me translate ...

 

[MossCommuter]

I didn't get where I am today by beating about the bush with cliches. You can beat about the bush with cliches till the cows come home

As a trained journalist I have been taught to avoid cliches like the plague