Damien Clochard

Privacy is disappearing. From our morning coffee habits to our medical records, personal information flows freely between employers, businesses, government agencies, and social media platforms.

4 years after the GDPR publication, implementing the "privacy by design" principle remains a headache... How can we integrate data protection rules from the early development stages of an application?

Since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation, data masking and anonymization are now mandatory in many use case where data has to flow in various ways. The good news is that you can use PostgreSQL to define and enforce an anonymization policy directly inside your database.

Data anonymization is an old topic but with the rise of legal and ethical concerns about privacy, database administrators must keep track of senstive data and hide it to certain users in different contexts : unit testing platform, open data access, audits, development, etc.