118: Making Users Anonymous Upon Request Thinking Elixir Podcast

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 show@thinkingelixir.com


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


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