Patent ID: 8914859

Claim:
A method for obfuscating elements in a message, comprising: detecting one or more sensitive information elements in a message to be broadcast into public or quasi-public computer network environment; replacing, by a processor, said one or more sensitive information elements in the message with a representation that preserves a general aspect of said one or more sensitive information elements and a user interface element for enabling a receiver of the message to request access to details of said one or more sensitive information elements; and transmitting the replaced message for broadcasting into the public or quasi-public computer network environment, the representation that preserves the general aspect of said one or more sensitive information element being meaningfully related to said one or more sensitive information element in a less detailed form, at least one of the sensitive information elements represented by a plurality of terms that are in progressively generalized form related to meaning of the sensitive information element, the user interface element associated with a particular sensitive information element.