Meanings of compartmentalize information in English

No time for explanations which, truth be told, would only have undermined our efforts to compartmentalize information as much as possible.

It compartmentalized information tightly, and it applied the "need-to-know" rule ruthlessly.

It's that we can-ifwe want to-compartmentalizeinformation of questionable credibility and stay open to learning the truth firsthand.

The meetings at HHS were held in a secure area called a "Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility," or SCIF, according to the administration officials.