September 27, 2022

118: Making Users Anonymous Upon Request

39 minutes

Honoring a user's “right to be forgotten” is not only respectful, but it may be a legal requirement. Clément Quaresma joins us to share how their ecto_anon library helps us make a user anonymous. A naive approach at removing a user's data may corrupt our own database! We dig into how this library works, the problems it solves, and how it might be used for even more than GDPR compliance.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/118

Elixir Community News

https://elixir-nx.github.io/axon/Axon.html – Sean Moriarity wrote 15 Livebook guides which go deeper into some of Axon's APIs.

https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1571983702413959175 – Sean Moriarity talking about the guides

https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1570154419164954625 – Sean Moriarity teases a new Axon.Serving module

https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1571310160148054016 – Dockyard is now sharing LiveView Native Weekly Updates.

https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/09/18/liveview-native-weekly-update-2 – LiveView Native update describes they are working on “SwiftUI modifiers”

https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/42 – LiveView Native list of SwiftUI views to support

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0336-distributed-actor-isolation.md#acknowledgments--prior-art – Apple Swift Evolution project credits Erlang and Elixir as inspirations.

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1571511215175733248 – Rustler gets improved binary support for zero copy dataframes in Nx and Explorer.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acquire-Figma/default.aspx – Figma gets bought by Adobe for $20B

https://twitter.com/nathanwillson/status/1570786011369869317 – Figmex is a technology PoC written with Phoenix, runs globally distributed

https://figmex.nathanwillson.com – Where you can play with the Figmex demo

http://fabricjs.com/ – Figemx doesn't use LiveView, uses fabric.js for canvas control

https://spawnfest.org/#rules – Spawnfest 2022 is gearing up

https://spawnfest.org/ideas – Spawnfest list of suggested ideas for those wanting inspiration

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/WTTJ/ecto_anon

https://twitter.com/wttj_tech/status/1544603864464236544

https://medium.com/wttj-tech/ecto-anon-our-open-source-library-for-anonymizing-data-easily-8d4d8c6b4041

https://www.welcometothejungle.com/

https://github.com/WTTJ/algoliax – Elixir library for working with Algolia search engine

https://www.algolia.com/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/quaresc – on Twitter

https://github.com/quaresc/ – on Github

https://www.linkedin.com/in/clement-quaresma/ – LinkedIn

https://twitter.com/wttj – Welcome to the Jungle on Twitter

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

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David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward