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Interesting. What if I own a shop and I want to use this technique to graph the number of people near my shop over time? Would I be in the clear if I hash the M

• komali2 8y ago
  The operative word being "collect," the second being "store," what you do between those steps is not really relevant. In other words: no, you probably will not be in the clear. https://iapp.org/news/a/what-the-gdpr-will-mean-for-companies-tracking-location/ https://iapp.org/news/a/what-the-gdpr-will-mean-for-companie...
  • thfuran 8y ago
    Operations before storage don't avoid any legal issues around the collection, but they certainly can obviate legal issues with storing the data. For example, if you 'hashed' them with an algorithm that always yield 0, you'd surely be in the clear as far as the storage goes. Probably you'd still be fine if the output of the hash was 1 bit. I don't know whether you'd still be in the clear for more common hash algorithms.
  • jcoffland 8y ago
    Storing the hash is not the same as storing the actual data.
    • tantalor 8y ago
      The hash of PII is still PII.