Sanitization
/ˌsa-nə-tə-ˈzā-shən/
noun — "making input safe without necessarily changing what it means."
Sanitization is the process of modifying, filtering, escaping, encoding, or transforming data so that it can be safely processed, stored, displayed, or transmitted by a system. Unlike Input Validation, which determines whether data is acceptable, sanitization focuses on making accepted data safe to use within a particular context.