Anonymisation software

Municipality of Dongen

Among other things, the algorithm recognises and anonymises (personal) data and confidential financial data in documents before they are published.

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• Publication category: Other algorithms
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• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Organisation and business operations

Begin date

03-2022

Contact information

[e-mail]

Link to publication website

https://www.dongen.nl/over-deze-website

Responsible use

Goal and impact

The anonymisation software is used to give substance to transparency on the one hand and the necessary protection of the individuals and companies to whom documents relate on the other.

Considerations

The alternative is manually filing away personal data. Using the tool takes work off your hands.

Human intervention

The documents anonymised by the software can be checked by an employee after completion. The algorithm itself is retrained periodically.

Risk management

Risk is minimal because an employee of the municipality always does the final test.

Legal basis

Woo and AVG

Operations

Data

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Technical design

Smart features, such as set rules or templates, make it possible to anonymise per document or as a bulk. In this way, you can also set the method and degree of anonymisation of commonly used (standard) documents. The software then uses pattern recognition and Natural Language Processing to search for names, addresses, dates of birth, specific set words, signatures or regular expressions (such as e-mail, IBAN, BSN). The DataMask software recognises these and makes suggestions to mask or anonymise them fully automatically.

External provider

Datamask BV

Link to code base

https://www.datamask.nl/over-datamask