Provide privacy protection, in a way (6)

I believe the answer is:

encode

(Other definitions for encode that I've seen before include "Put into secret writing" , "Conceal meaning" , "transform with substitutions?" , "Encipher" , "Turn message into secret symbols" .)

I've seen this clue in the LA Times.

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