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Definition: Sanitization |
SanitizationNoun1. Making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | The degaussing or overwriting of sensitive information in magnetic or other storage media. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term "sanitization" is a euphemism commonly used in the context of propaganda, to refer to the doctoring of information for purposes of eliminating incriminating, self-contradictory, controversial, or otherwise perceived-as-damaging data.
A well-known example of sanitization policies comes from the USSR under Stalin, where publicly used photographs were often altered to remove people who Stalin had ordered executed. Hitler was considered a pioneer in creating propaganda material, all of which was, by definition, sanitized for the improvement of the Nazi image.
Censorship is a form of sanitization. Specifically, censorship refers to a socially accepted policy of eliminating material rejected as harmful. Censorship, unlike acts or policies of sanitization, refers to a publicly set standard, not a privately set (or government-enforced but unannounced) standard. Censorship does not attempt to cover up material made by an organization, but rather to restrict or abolish defined types of material produced by private citizens.
List of websites with known sanitization policies:
(Cleans-up mistakes made in speeches by US President George W. Bush, it also contains little contradictory information of current administration policies, and has deleted any reference to controversial Corporate accounting scandal figure Ken Lay, among others. In a different example of sanitization, the U.S. State Department website will display material only when it supports administration policies. For example the website contains in full, the UN Security Council resolutions, which support the administration in its views of Iraq, but will not show such UN resolutions against Israel or the US.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sanitization."
Synonyms: SanitizationSynonyms: sanitation (n), sanitisation (n). (additional references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sanitization | 11 |
hand sanitization | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "sanitization"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | udsletning af oplysninger (sanitizing, scrubbing). (various references) | |
Dutch | sanering (clean up, cleanup, municipal sewage system, rationalization, reconstruction, redevelopment, rehabilitation, remediation, reorganization, sanitation, sanitizing, scrubbing, sewage disposal, urban renewal, urban sewerage system, wastewater disposal). (various references) | |
Finnish | datan poisto (sanitizing, scrubbing), datan poistaminen (sanitizing, scrubbing). (various references) | |
French | remise zéro des supports d'information (sanitizing), effacement de données d'une mémoire (sanitizing). (various references) | |
German | Löschen von Daten auf temporär belegten Speichermedien (sanitizing, scrubbing). (various references) | |
Greek | διαγραφή από τη μνήμη (sanitizing, scrubbing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anitizationsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | limpeza da memória (sanitizing, scrubbing). (various references) | |
Spanish | limpieza de memoria (sanitizing, scrubbing). (various references) | |
Swedish | fysisk radering av data (sanitizing, scrubbing). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sanitization": sanitizations. (additional references) | |
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"Sanitization" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: latinization. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-i-n-n-o-s-t-t-z" | |
-2 letters: sanitation. | |
-3 letters: natations, satiation. | |
-4 letters: annattos, natation, ostinati, sonatina, titanias. | |
-5 letters: anattos, annatto, anoints, attains, instant, nations, onanist, station, titania, titians, zinnias. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-i-n-n-o-s-t-t-z" | |
+1 letter: latinizations, sanitizations. | |
+3 letters: gelatinizations, initializations, keratinizations. | |
+4 letters: infantilizations, internalizations, miniaturizations, nationalizations, rationalizations, romanticizations. | |
+5 letters: antiorganizations, autoimmunizations, containerizations, fictionalizations, industrialization, internationalizes, technicalizations, transistorization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 69 74 69 7A 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101001 01111010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n i t i z a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0069 0074 0069 007A 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536780758675926786758180 |
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