Midline ellipses [• • •] are bulleted characters that partially hide sensitive data. They indicate when a number, such as a credit card or Social Security number, is not entirely visible.

Redacting numbers

Baseline ellipses [...] represent letters, words, or phrases that aren’t shown. They also represent when a name or email address is only partially visible.

Redacting letters

Data redaction and truncation refers to how to represent truncated numbers and disguise sensitive data.

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Data formats depict different types of numeric and linguistic data.

Data formats

1) Time and date formats
2) Time and date ranges
3) Time zones
4) When to show date and time
5) Abbreviations
6) Talking about date and time

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