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by ByteJockey 1587 days ago
Bingo.

We did a similar thing except replacing the values with a UUID and storing the pair in a lookup table somewhere. Delete that row and none of the rest of the data is able to be tied back to a human being.

Bonus, most people didn't need that data, and it was no longer given out to everyone who grabbed the entire dataset.