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Encrypt user's email into unique id

In our web application, we have the requirement to log users' activities. The user's information can be extracted from jwt token. And due to privacy reasons, the user's employee id or email are not allowed to be used as identifiers in the log. One…
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How to Sync Data from a Smartwatch to a Smartphone without Sharing Data with the Google Cloud?

Dear Android community, I am currently working on an Android application where I would like to share some sensor data from a Smartwatch in real-time with a Smartphone. There are a couple of such projects available on Github. These projects are…
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Can downloading a public file from Google Drive reveal the owner's identity?

I have a document in my Google drive, which I want somebody else to download from a Google Sites website I have created. But I don't want the person viewing the document to know my identity, and I don't want to be able to know the identity of…
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Any local privacy-oriented user authentication for mobile apps?

I'm building an app and I'm being very cautious about the user privacy on the app. I do not want to collect any data. Not even email IDs. Is there any way to do user authentication without email/phone number? One idea for now is using biometrics on…
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Can I disable Google Analytics for a specific user in a mobile app from backend only without an in app toggle switches?

I could not find such answer. Is it possible to keep analytics enabled for all but disable it for one person? Assuming there are no toggles in an app which user can use directly and I want to do that from a back end only when a specif user requests…
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Identifying personnal information from column description

I have a question about the identification of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) related sentences. Is there a tool / method in Python, Java, ... that identifies whether a database column contains personnally identifiable information from its…
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Can a website read the contents of my Bookmarks folder?

I was having a brief discussion with a friend about always clearing browser history on exit (or using incognito mode). He didn't do it because he wanted the "smart fill" to occur whenever he typed in the web address of a previously visited site in…
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Having sensitive content for github pages public repo

I'm making a website and I have a slack webhook I'm using to post messages to a slack channel. I tried pushing to github (on a public repo since I have the free version and you can't have a private repo with github pages for free) but I got an email…
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Which kind of information can be collect about "website third parties"?

I have collected all the requests made by websites with the aim to identify the third-parties through the requests which are made by a website. I used selenium and WebDriver to do that. These requests can be made by the JavaScript present in the…
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How to Protect Data without Signups for Swift iPhone App

I have an iPhone app written with Swift. The app connects to my server to get data (get_data.php) based on some selections that an user select within the app. The user doesn't have to sign up or anything. Other apps are able to use my get_data.php…
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Can developers of gsuite addons view the data in your sheets / docs?

Suppose we install a gsuite addon, we may see something like: Suppose we have a google sheet/doc containing some plain text (a pretty standard use), equations, etc; e.g. it may contain: Here's something top secret: my_secret_123_abcxyz?! Are there…
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How to send parameter for tracking inside cid with PHPmailer

Using PHPmailer, has anybody tried to send a tracking pixel, of course with its tracking parameters? The only working way to send images through PHPmailer is embedded with cid, with code like this: $mail->AddEmbeddedImage($file_path, $cid_name,…
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Does Amazon Web Services (AWS) support GDPR?

Which AWS services are GDPR ready? Can I build and run GDPR compliant applications on AWS?
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Is there an Info.plist key "Privacy - ... Usage Description" for screen recording in macOS?

I can't find a plist key for Screen Recording to provide a custom usage explanation. Is this my own oversight in looking through docs? Right now I can prompt and have the user enable permissions using the temporary-exception entitlement for…
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private application for a private business in apple store

I'm developing an app for my company, using firebase where I store some important business data. My question is, can I publish the app on the App Store for free and create a login page where only the employees with specific account create from me…
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