Abstract: Computing devices for on-demand de-identification of data in computer storage systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a server can include a process and a memory containing instructions configured to receive an electronic message via a computer network. The electronic message contains data representing a user identifier and a demand to delete any data records in a database that correspond to the user identifier. The server can then extract records corresponding to the user identifier from the database, replacing the user identifier in the extracted records with a random number and/or suppressing or generalizing quasi-identifiers from the extracted records, and then store the new records in a separate table. Copies of the extracted records can then be deleted from the original tables, and thus achieving on-demand anonymization of the one or more data records in the database corresponding to the user identifier.

Abstract: Computing devices for on-demand de-identification of data in computer storage systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a server can include a process and a memory containing instructions configured to receive an electronic message via a computer network. The electronic message contains data representing a user identifier and a demand to delete any data records in a database that correspond to the user identifier. The server can then extract records corresponding to the user identifier from the database, replacing the user identifier in the extracted records with a random number and/or suppressing or generalizing quasi-identifiers from the extracted records, and then store the new records in a separate table. Copies of the extracted records can then be deleted from the original tables, and thus achieving on-demand anonymization of the one or more data records in the database corresponding to the user identifier.