unmasn
Unmasn is a term that appears infrequently in discussions of data privacy and information security. It does not have a standardized definition in major glossaries, and in many texts it is either a misspelling of unmask or an informal coinage used to refer to reversing masking operations in digital data. As such, its meaning is highly context dependent.
In technical contexts, unmasking describes efforts to reveal original data or identities from datasets, communications, or
Applications and governance: Proponents of privacy-preserving data sharing emphasize robust masking, differential privacy, and access controls
Criticism and alternatives: The ambiguity of the term unmasn has led many writers to prefer established terms
See also: de-identification; data masking; re-identification; privacy by design.