Anonymization versus Pseudonymization

[haesleinhuepf]

Hi @d-tear ,

I would like to ask you to think about clarifying some terminology in your software and in the documentation. In daily lab-life many people use the term "anonymization" but as later data analysis needs association with the original names (e.g. patient names or file names), the correct term would be "pseudonymization" (see wikipedia). Thus, I would ask you to at least clarify the difference in your documentation. I know people use these terms synonymously and that's why I think at least mentioning that there is a difference would be good to improve communication within the community.

Cheers,
Robert

[haesleinhuepf]

openjournals/joss-reviews#2689

[d-tear]

Hi @haesleinhuepf ,

Thanks for brining this to my attention. I've made efforts throughout the paper to use the more correct term of pseudonymization. In the repository readme, I also added a hyperlink to the wikipedia page for pseudonymization and added some additional sentences to differentiate pseudonymization vs anonymization