Verbage for the modern age

This technological age we are in provides a virtual cornucopia of new words - or old words revisted. Take "anonymize" as a case in point. Anonymize: to make the end user anonymous or unidentifiable. Why is this important - and why now? Viacom, major broadcaster and owner of much audio-visual and programming content is suing Google, and has now been granted access to records from Google's online video sharing network - YouTube. So, in an effort to protect the identify of individual users - who may or may not have been uploading and/or downloading copyrighted material to/from the site - Google wants to anonymize the records before they are released to Viacom. In the report I read they were also talklng about their plan to redact the records, which according to the SlovoEd dictionary, means to remove sensitive information before publication. Whether this is possible, or will be agreed to under the terms of the judgement requesting release of the records, is unclear.