How to View Anonymized Data?

@hamiasmai it’s not possible to view anonymized data. Actually the values in the DB change and there’s no way to retrieve them back. And as I understand GDPR this is how it should work. Once you anonymized the data, you just know there was something there but you cannot recover the values.

I also had the same questions a while back. See the below post:

I was thinking it worked like passwords. Where in db you cant see it directly because it use some kind of encryption algorithm. But when you authenticate it is works.

Feels like IFS should do that instead (encrypt using algorithm) so human wouldnt understand it in db. Or probably that is the GDPR rule about?

Regards

Hami

@hamiasmai see below an  screenshot from https://www.gdprsummary.com/anonymization-and-gdpr/

So, the data must be irreversibly altered so that nobody could be able to retrive it again. If it’s just encrypted, it could also be decrypted with the proper key. I believe the IFS implementation of GDPR is spot on.

Thanks! I also spoke with a few colleagues where the situation of this anonymization is normally when data is no longer required ie when the person has left the company etc. In this case, yes the function serves it purpose.

Btw is there anywhere to read about the 3 options in the question?

• View
• Update
• Withdraw All