Ability to mask / scramble personal information from datasets before sending to others for improvement testing and trouble shooting (AGS-8808)

Benefits:

You can now easily mask/obfuscate/scramble sensitive data like Social Security numbers, banking data, and other personally identifiable information when copying a dataset.

Benefits of this new feature include:
+ Alleviate privacy concerns when sending datasets to Greenstone Support.
+ Reduce time and effort to remove personal information before sending datasets to Greenstone Support.
+ Maximimize ability to comply with privacy laws and policies.

Details:

• There is a new checkbox in the copy dataset function labeled "Scramble Sensitive Data ?"

Navigation - Usage: 

Copy Dataset: Utilities > Copy Dataset > Select Dataset

1. "Scramble Sensitive Data ?" is a "Y/N" field that defaults to "N."  It is available for both MSSQL and PSQL datasets.

   1. Open

      

2. Answering "Y" to the question will result in the following data being scrambled:

   1. Name/Address Information

      1. Social Security/Federal ID Number

      2. Name Descriptions (short and long)

      3. All Address Lines

      4. City (short and long)

      5. State

      6. Zip Code

      7. Phone Number

      8. Comments

      9. Split Group Descriptions

   2. Bank Information

      1. Name Description

3. Data scrambling rules
   
   

   1. The fields will be filled with a string of fifteen or fewer Xs depending on field size.

   2. Example Name search grid after scrambling.

   3. Open

      

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