Data anonymization

Data protection laws and regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires specific handling of user's personal data, even after a user is removed. Any information of employees and other clients such as the username, email addresses, or client IP addresses must be removed from Developer Portal.

When a user is deleted from Developer Portal, the audit events retain the information about the user, which must be deleted or anonymized.

When you anonymize user data, the corresponding username is replaced with anonymous in all applicable instances of the UI.

You can anonymize user data automatically or manually as follows.
  • Automatic. From the Developer Portal UI, you can configure to anonymize user accounts automatically as and when they are deleted from Developer Portal. The automatic anonymization is enabled by default. When you delete a user account, it is automatically anonymized after a delay of two minutes.
  • Manual. If you do not want to automatically anonymize the deleted account, use a REST API to anonymize the list of user accounts.