[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              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch gdpr    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by jesperher):

 Replying to [comment:6 dejliglama]:
 > In relation to e-mail anoymization (and possibly other fields), the
 requirement of an e-mail to be unique should be thought into this solution
 so that e-mails stay unique even after anonymization.

 Emails, is already unique, since we already use it as an ID.

 The situation where an two hashed emails gets hashed to the same, is very
 unlikely.
 And if the there still needs to be a relation between seperate data, based
 on email as link, it wouldn't be good to make 2 different emails, based on
 the same email.

 But maybe we could make a "unique" parameter to the function, and if its
 true, we include a unique ID

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