Django Anonymizer helps you anonymize data in a database used for development of a Django project.
It is common practice in develpment to use a database that is very similar in content to the real data, and sometimes you need the live data on a developer’s machine in order to reproduce a bug. The problem is that this can lead to having copies of sensitive customer data on development machines and other places (like automatic backups).
This app helps by providing an easy and customizable way to anonymize data in your models. It is designed for fairly small databases (or databases that have already been reduced to a small size) - otherwise the anonymization process will simply take too long to execute.
Please note that the methods provided may not be able to give full anonymity. Even if you anonymize the names and other details of your customers, there may well be enough data to identify them. Relationships between records in the database are not altered, in order to preserve the characteristic structure of data in your application, but this may leave you open to information leaks which might not be acceptable for your data. This application should be good enough for simpler policies like ‘remove all real telephone numbers from the database’.
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