A municipal smart-grid utility provider plans to share residential electricity consumption logs with an external research agency for energy forecasting analysis. To satisfy data privacy regulations, the dataset must prevent researchers from identifying individual customer accounts. However, the researchers must remain able to link distinct records belonging to the same household across separate quarterly files using a consistent, non-reversible surrogate key. Which of the following privacy-enhancing techniques should the security team implement?
- PseudonymizationCevap
- BData Anonymization
- CData Masking
- DData Custodianship
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Pseudonymization is the correct privacy-enhancing technique because it replaces direct identifiers with consistent surrogate keys, allowing data correlation across distinct datasets while protecting individual privacy.
Pseudonymization replaces direct personal identifiers with pseudonyms or surrogate keys. This technique enables analysts to link disparate datasets belonging to the same entity over time without having access to the real-world identity of the customer.
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Pseudonymization vs Anonymization and Privacy Controls