New in Symfony 4.4: IP Address Anonymizer
Warning: This post is about an unsupported Symfony version. Some of this information may be out of date. Read the most recent Symfony Docs.
Contributed by
Jordi Boggiano
in #32194.
Privacy is an increasingly important compliance concern for tech companies. Existing regulations such as EU 2016/679, commonly known as GDPR, and upcoming regulations such as CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) impose some restrictions on the collection and treatment of personal data.
In addition to classic personal data such as names and phone numbers, some digital information, such as email addresses and IP addresses, are also considered personal data.
A common procedure to store information about users (for analysis purposes) while being compliant is to anonymize IP addresses. Specifically, you must remove the last byte for IPv4 addresses and the last 8 bytes for IPv6 addresses.
Although this is not technically challenging, in Symfony 4.4 we've added a new
anonymize()
method to the IpUtils
class so you don't have to create this
method yourself:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\IpUtils;
$ipv4 = '123.234.235.236';
$anonymousIpv4 = IPUtils::anonymize($ipv4);
// $anonymousIpv4 = '123.234.235.0'
$ipv6 = '2a01:198:603:10:396e:4789:8e99:890f';
$anonymousIpv6 = IPUtils::anonymize($ipv6);
// $anonymousIpv6 = '2a01:198:603:10::'
Help the Symfony project!
As with any Open-Source project, contributing code or documentation is the most common way to help, but we also have a wide range of sponsoring opportunities.
Comments
Comments are closed.
To ensure that comments stay relevant, they are closed for old posts.