[Koha] Question regarding patron anonymization

[Andy Boze]

Thanks, Katrin and Andrew.

It's good to know that the anonymization only currently involves the 
old_issues table. I apparently don't have sufficient privilege to see 
the the bug, but I hope that the issue of anonymizing the statistics 
table can be addressed.

Andy

On 10/23/2022 9:17 AM, Katrin Fischer wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> at the moment the anonymization is limited to the old_issues table. See:
> 
> *Bug 23453*
> <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23453> - The
> statistics table bypasses anonymization of circulation data
> 
> I believe cleanup_database.pl has an option to remove statistics entries.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Katrin
> 
> On 20.10.22 21:48, Andy Boze wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> We regularly run the patron anonymization script as documented at <
>> https://koha-community.org/manual/21.11/en/html/cron_jobs.html#anonymize-patron-data
>> >. The documentation doesn't go into details of exactly what the
>> script does.
>>
>> The documentation for the batch patron anonymization <
>> https://koha-community.org/manual/21.11/en/html/tools.html#batch-patron-deletion-anonymization
>> > say "This tool allows you to bulk anonymize circulation
>> histories...", by which I assume it means it will replace the
>> borrowernumber in the old_issues table with that of the anonymous patron.
>>
>> I'm wondering whether any anonymization is supposed to occur in the
>> statistics table. Our statistics table goes back several years, and I
>> don't see any anonymization of the borrowernumber there.
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts.
>>
>> Andy
>>
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