[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43545: Helper functions: Anonymizing data in a standardized way

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#43545: Helper functions: Anonymizing data in a standardized way
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 Reporter:  dejliglama          |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  Options, Meta APIs  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch gdpr    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Replying to [comment:22 allendav]:

 43545.diff looks good. There is one place where it may fail to anonymize
 an IPv6 address, if `! function_exists( 'inet_pton' )`. I'll fix that.

 Was also thinking we can reuse the "extracted" function in
 WP_Community_Events:
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes
 /class-wp-community-events.php#L210

 > ...modified the domains to example.com and the time stamp to a more
 appropriate default

 Not sure if that's better. Thinking that it should be changed to something
 that can never be used. The example.com is an actual website, it belongs
 to "somebody". However the .test domain will never ever exist.

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