Hi All, Recently we evaluated GDPR requirement(right to be forgotten) for API Manager 3.0.0 development. Our primary focus was to find a way to implement "right to be forgotten" without effecting core logic of the system(with minimum changes). Following is the design we came up. We will be able to utilize same design for other products(who used same development methodology) as well. In API Manager 3.0.0 we do have set of MSF4J based micro services. Then ReactJS based apps developed on top of these APIs. Micro services directly call API publisher, store and admin implementations(via APIs). So what we did was intercept each API call and change user name to pseudo name.
To do this we have utility functions which maps real user to pseudo users and vise versa. It works like this. - If pseudo name/username available in map then get mapping and return mapped value. - Else check mapping in database and load it to local map. Then return mapped value. - If mapping is not in database then add it to db and map. Then return mapped value. And if we need to disable GDPR support due to some reason then above mentioned utility methods can return same attribute passed. Then it will not change anything and real user name will be used inside implementation. So as you can see in below image, API Manager implementation(boundary marked with green dash line) works only with pseudo name. Whenever it communicates with API layer or any other external system(two boxes connected to green box) we will change pseudo name to real user name. I have done a quick test with this implementation and now everything(logs, db entries, files etc) getting recorded with pseudo name. So whenever we need to delete user we just have to delete user and remove mapping. Our plan is to do same for light weight auth framework as well. I would like to know others opinion on this before move forward. Thanks, sanjeewa. -- *Sanjeewa Malalgoda* WSO2 Inc. Mobile : +94713068779 <http://sanjeewamalalgoda.blogspot.com/>blog :http://sanjeewamalalgoda.blogspot.com/ <http://sanjeewamalalgoda.blogspot.com/>
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