To effectively utilize personal information while protecting individual rights and interests.SOLUTION: An information concealment method relating to one aspect of an embodiment is executed by a computer and includes an extraction step and a processing step. In the extraction step, a data group of data including personal information is extracted. In the processing step, the personal information is classified to prescribed categories, and the data is processed on the basis of a regularity preliminarily set for each of the categories so that an individual is not uniquely specified from the personal information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
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