Anonymisation tool

Municipality of Zaltbommel

The algorithm recognises and anonymises personal and, in specific cases, confidential business data in documents before they are published.

Last change on 4th of March 2024, at 14:48 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0

• Publication category: Other algorithms
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• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Organisation and business operations

Begin date

2024-03

Contact information

[e-mail]

Responsible use

Goal and impact

The purpose of this algorithm is to protect personal and business data when publishing documents. The impact is low.

Considerations

One advantage of deploying this algorithm is that personal and business data can be masked much faster and better. The alternative is masking everything manually. This costs an employee much more time.

Human intervention

An employee always checks the final result. This is laid down in the work instruction.

Risk management

Risk: The anonymisation software does not detect the data to be masked. Measure: An employee always checks the final result.

Legal basis

Open Government Act (Woo)

Links to legal bases

Wet open overheid: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0045754/2023-04-01

Operations

Data

In theory, all categories of (personal) data processed within the municipal organisation can be processed within this algorithm.

Technical design

Documents are fed into the algorithm. The algorithm detects the data to be masked within these documents. The employee makes the choice of which data to mask. The outcome is a document on which the necessary data is masked.

In the training of this algorithm by the supplier, no data from the municipality are used.

External provider

Datamask B.V.