anonymize-personal-data

Anonymize

A tool to anonymize personal data. This is usefull when you want to send your data to an external services (like api.ai) without exposing your user true data.

# Installation

 npm install anonymize-personal-data --save

Example of Usage

var Anonymize = require('anonymize-personal-data');
 
var anonymizedData = 
  Anonymize.removePersonalData("Je vais a Paris ce weekend et mon email est [e-mail]", "fr");
 
var unAnoymizedData = Anonymize.restorePersonalData(anonymizedData.text, anonymizedData.data);
 
console.log(anonymizedData, unAnoymizedData);
 

Reference

This module contain 2 methods :

removePersonalData

This method take a string in entry and a local and return an object with a text field containing an anonymized string

var data =  Anonymize.removePersonalData("STRING", "local");
console.log(data)

restorePersonalData

This method allow for easy de-anonynization of a string.

var originalString = Anonymize.restorePersonalData(anoymizedData.text, anoymizedData.data);

Language support

For now the tool support the local 'fr' (France) with the following data :

• All French name and lastname according to insee
• All French City name
• All French zipcode
• All French Phone number
• All email address
• French Vehicule registration number
• French National healthcare number (SECU)

For now the tool support the local 'uk' (United Kingdom) with the following data :

• UK name and lastname according to internet
• All UK Town name
• All UK County name
• All UK zipcode
• All UK Phone number
• All email address
• UK Vehicule registration number
• UK National healthcare number (NIH)
• UK VAT numbers
• UK Child Benefits Regference number

Extending to more language / type of data

To add a new local, create a new directory in dictionary named with local name. Then add in this directory some list or regexp file. List files are list of keyword to replace, separate by a \n (ex : city name). Regexp files contain a regexp matching a data you want to replace (ex : email address)