Mask a customer list before handing it over
Before an outside analyst or another department gets the file, hide the columns that identify people.
Steps
- Drop the CSV on "Mask personal data".
- Press "Hide all personal data" or "Contacts only (email, phone)"; whole columns can be hidden too.
- Check the preview table and save. The original stays as it is.
- Save the processing report for a record of what was masked: kinds, counts, whole columns and the style (never the values).
Questions
- Can masked text be recovered?
- No. Masking is one-way. Keep the original file elsewhere.
- Can names be found?
- No: a name has no shape to find. A column headed like a name (Name, Full name) is hidden whole from the start, and one click shows it again; any other column can be hidden whole too.
- Can one finding stay as it is?
- Yes. Open the list of what was found and untick it.
The CSV is never uploaded; everything runs in this browser.