118: Making Users Anonymous Upon Request

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] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!