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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by fleetingmoments on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:49AM (#16482609)
What if you're using an append-only log, like Kafka as your data backbone?
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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by wsy on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:58PM (#16486836)
Two options: a) use a reasonably short retention period, e.g. 6 weeks b) if you key your entries in Kafka, a new entry with the same key will overwrite the old one. That way you could overwrite PII content with an empty message.
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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by boredatwork on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:41AM (#16483270)
You got a big problem.
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