diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b7d4fe9..bef1a0e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ The constructor accepts two optional argument:
 
   * `$root_path` - if specified, the project root-path will be removed from visible filenames in stack-traces.
   * `$max_string_length` - specifies the maximum length at which reported PHP values will be truncated.
-  * `$blacklist` - specifies one or more filename patterns to blacklist from stack-traces.
+  * `$filters` - specifies one or more filename patterns to be filtered from stack-traces.
 
 In addition, the public `$error_levels` property lets you customize how PHP error-levels map to
 Sentry severity-levels. The default configuration matches that of the official 2.0 client.
diff --git a/src/Extensions/ExceptionReporter.php b/src/Extensions/ExceptionReporter.php
index 4ab08a9..9362a9b 100644
--- a/src/Extensions/ExceptionReporter.php
+++ b/src/Extensions/ExceptionReporter.php
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ class ExceptionReporter implements SentryClientExtension
     protected $max_string_length;
 
     /**
-     * @var string[] file-name patterns to blacklist from stack-traces
+     * @var string[] file-name patterns to filter from stack-traces
      */
-    protected $blacklist;
+    protected $filters;
 
     /**
      * Severity of `ErrorException` mappings are identical to the official (2.0) client
@@ -76,16 +76,16 @@ class ExceptionReporter implements SentryClientExtension
     /**
      * The optional `$root_path`, if given, will be stripped from filenames.
      *
-     * The optional `$blacklist` is an array of {@see \fnmatch()} patterns, which will be applied
+     * The optional `$filters` is an array of {@see \fnmatch()} patterns, which will be applied
      * to relative paths of source-file references in stack-traces. You can use this to filter
      * scripts that define/bootstrap sensitive values like passwords and hostnames, so that
      * these lines will never show up in a stack-trace.
      *
      * @param string|null $root_path         absolute project root-path (e.g. Composer root path; optional)
      * @param int         $max_string_length PHP values longer than this will be truncated
-     * @param string[]    $blacklist         Optional file-name patterns to blacklist from stack-traces
+     * @param string[]    $filters           Optional file-name patterns to filter from stack-traces
      */
-    public function __construct(?string $root_path = null, $max_string_length = 200, array $blacklist = [])
+    public function __construct(?string $root_path = null, $max_string_length = 200, array $filters = [])
     {
         $this->root_path = $root_path
             ? rtrim($root_path, "/\\") . "/"
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public function __construct(?string $root_path = null, $max_string_length = 200,
 
         $this->max_string_length = $max_string_length;
 
-        $this->blacklist = $blacklist;
+        $this->filters = $filters;
     }
 
     public function apply(Event $event, Throwable $exception, ?ServerRequestInterface $request): void
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ protected function createStackFrame(array $entry): StackFrame
             $frame->filename = substr($filename, strlen($this->root_path));
         }
 
-        if ($this->isBlacklisted($filename)) {
-            $frame->context_line = "### BLACKLISTED ###";
+        if ($this->isFiltered($filename)) {
+            $frame->context_line = "### FILTERED FILE ###";
         } else {
             if ($filename !== self::NO_FILE) {
                 $this->loadContext($frame, $filename, $lineno, 5);
@@ -215,13 +215,13 @@ protected function createStackFrame(array $entry): StackFrame
     /**
      * @param string $filename absolute path to source-file
      *
-     * @return bool true, if the given file matches any defined blacklist pattern
+     * @return bool true, if the given file matches any defined filter pattern
      *
-     * @see $blacklist
+     * @see $filters
      */
-    protected function isBlacklisted(string $filename): bool
+    protected function isFiltered(string $filename): bool
     {
-        foreach ($this->blacklist as $pattern) {
+        foreach ($this->filters as $pattern) {
             if (fnmatch($pattern, substr($filename, strlen($this->root_path)))) {
                 return true;
             }
diff --git a/test/test.fixtures.php b/test/test.fixtures.php
index fe0a74b..1931f40 100644
--- a/test/test.fixtures.php
+++ b/test/test.fixtures.php
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class MockSentryClient extends SentryClient
      */
     public $time = 1538738714;
 
-    public function __construct(EventCapture $capture, ?array $extensions = null, ?array $blacklist = [])
+    public function __construct(EventCapture $capture, ?array $extensions = null, ?array $filters = [])
     {
         $this->logger = new BreadcrumbLogger();
 
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ public function __construct(EventCapture $capture, ?array $extensions = null, ?a
             $extensions ?: [
                 new EnvironmentReporter(),
                 new RequestReporter(),
-                new ExceptionReporter(__DIR__, 200, $blacklist),
+                new ExceptionReporter(__DIR__, 200, $filters),
                 new ClientSniffer(),
                 new ClientIPDetector(),
             ]
diff --git a/test/test.php b/test/test.php
index d35068f..cd7830e 100644
--- a/test/test.php
+++ b/test/test.php
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ function () {
     }
 );
 
-function test_exception_capture($use_blacklist = false) {
-    return function () use ($use_blacklist) {
+function test_exception_capture($use_filter = false) {
+    return function () use ($use_filter) {
         $dsn = new MockDSN();
 
         $capture = new MockDirectEventCapture($dsn);
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ function test_exception_capture($use_blacklist = false) {
         $client = new MockSentryClient(
             $capture,
             null,
-            $use_blacklist
+            $use_filter
                 ? ["*.fixtures.php"]
                 : []
         );
@@ -181,16 +181,16 @@ function test_exception_capture($use_blacklist = false) {
         eq($inner_frames[2]["lineno"], 34);
         eq($inner_frames[3]["lineno"], 31, "can capture line-number of failed call-site");
 
-        $BLACKLISTED = "### BLACKLISTED ###";
+        $FILTERED = "### FILTERED FILE ###";
 
-        if ($use_blacklist) {
-            ok(! isset($inner_frames[0]["pre_context"]), "can blacklist pre_context");
+        if ($use_filter) {
+            ok(! isset($inner_frames[0]["pre_context"]), "filtering removes pre_context");
 
-            eq($inner_frames[0]["context_line"], $BLACKLISTED, "can blacklist context_line");
+            eq($inner_frames[0]["context_line"], $FILTERED, "filtering removes context_line");
 
-            ok(! isset($inner_frames[0]["post_context"]), "can blacklist post_context");
+            ok(! isset($inner_frames[0]["post_context"]), "filtering removes post_context");
 
-            ok(! isset($inner_frames[0]["vars"]), "can blacklist arguments");
+            ok(! isset($inner_frames[0]["vars"]), "filtering omits arguments");
         } else {
             eq(
                 $inner_frames[0]["pre_context"],
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ function test_exception_capture($use_blacklist = false) {
 );
 
 test(
-    "can capture Exception without vars and stack-traces from files matching a blacklist pattern",
+    "can capture Exception without vars and stack-traces from files matching a filter pattern",
     test_exception_capture(true)
 );