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An anonymizer is a tool that de-identifies or masks data/event unidentifiable. It could be a proxy server that acts as a shield between internet and the local network or it can be a tool that consumes data from the source and modifies it into a untraceable data into the destination(like removal of sensitive/protected information).

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Anonymize IP logging in nginx?

To respect the privacy of my users I'm trying to anonymize their IP addresses in nginx log files. One way to do this would be defining a custom log format, like so: log_format noip '127.0.0.1 - [$time_local] ' '"$request" $status…
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GDPR compliance

Just found about this new regulation, it will be law in 2018 and affects anybody who stores data about EU citizens, that can be used to identify a person. More detail here. I have a page that doesn't store names and exact addresses but it stores…
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Email Anonymization Similar to Craigslist in C#

I am developing a site for which I would like to protect buyers by anonymizing their email addresses.Similar to craigslist's system, when a seller needs to contact a buyer they should be able to send an email to an anonymized address such as…
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Anonymize specific columns with pii in pandas dataframe python

I have loaded an s3 bucket with json files and parsed/flattened it in to a pandas dataframe. Now i have a dataframe with 175 columns with 4 columns containing personally identifiable information. I am looking for a quick solution anonymising those…
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Anonymizing your application database

I'd like to keep the real names, emails, and any other personal identifiable information out of my primary application database, and in another database/encrypted file. And I'm curious on if there's a best practices solution for this or if I'm…
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how anonymize Google Analytics for iOS for GDPR / RGPD purpose

I wonder if it is possible to use Google Analytics for iOS in a anonymized way. It is currently possible to : - disable IDFA (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ios/v3/optional-features) - anonymize IP…
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Encrypt mysql database

I'm trying to build a platform for users who will store confidential data about their clients. The context is quite simple: french laws prohibit me from having access to the data that my users will store (for example medical records of patients). So…
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How do you anonymize a vector in a way that generates human-readable output in R?

For the purpose of protecting research subjects from being identifiable in data sets, I'm interested in anonymizing vectors in R. However, I also want to be able to refer to the output when writing up the research (e.g. "subject [random id] showed…
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Anonymize IP logging in nginx error.log

For access.log it is possible: Anonymize IP logging in nginx? But, is there also any possibility to anonymize IP logging in the error.log?
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Oracle: Pure PL/SQL data extraction and anonymization using temporary tables, read-only permissions

I am trying to create a PL/SQL script that extracts a root "object" together with all children and other relevant information from an oracle production database. The purpose is to create a set of test-data to recreate issues that are encountered in…
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Anonymize pom.xml on release

I've got artefacts which are built and released using Maven. The artefact's original pom.xml contains the usual project information (artifactId, name, etc.) and the dependencies. That's fine. But the pom.xml also includes private information such as…
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How do I identify what is causing thrashing in my R function?

I wrote a function to anonymize names in a data frame given some key and it comes to a crawl once it gets to anonymizing very many names but I don't understand why. The data frame in question is a set of 4733 tweets collected through the Twitter API…
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How can I anonymise XML data for selected tags?

My question is as follows: I have to read a big XML file, 50 MB; and anonymise some tags/fields that relate to private issues, like name surname address, email, phone number, etc... I know exactly which tags in XML are to be anonymised. …
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Anonymize html with regex

I'm trying to anonymize a HTML string with regex, for an SQL query. https://regex101.com/r/QWt1E1/1 (?\s](?!\>)

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Removing object metadata in R

I'm writing some code to anonymize an R dataset in such a way that it strips any useful information out of the data while preserving the structure that would be important for running regressions, etc on it. I want to be sure I've removed all…
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