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pgryko01/17/20251 replyview on HN

Are these tools able to automatically identify PII information or do you have to specify columns and data types manually? What happens if you have PII data in a string field? Do you just rely on something like spacy to identify the PII data?


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graindcafe01/17/2025

From the website:

> The project has a declarative approach of anonymization.

> Finally, the extension offers a panel of detection functions that will try to guess which columns need to be anonymized.

https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/detec...