[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:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Options, Meta APIs  |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal              |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                      |
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 To help GDPR Compliance with the anonymization functionality, we need to
 consider

 - returning anonymized data based on the type of field holding the data
 eg. e-mail, address, number sequences and other

 - returning data that can't be misunderstood as real data (making sense
 locally as well as to the administrator of a site

 - ?

 A proposal has been to consider a general format with a prefix, an MD5
 hash of the data, and a postfix to make the data compliant with the field
 type.
 eg:
 johndoe at mysite.com > [deleted]-[MD5 of Johndoe at mysite.com][postfix]
 The e-mail would then become: deleted-
 0c47598f5738e73c843552572a371543 at example.com

 The prefix and postfix of each field type should be localized.

 Furthermore, field data that doesn't require MD5 hashing like standard
 addresses: 123 Main Street - could be localized.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43545>
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