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Dev tools · June 17, 2020

ARX – Data Anonymization Tool

Comprehensive software 4 privacy-preserving data publishing

ARX – Data Anonymization Tool launched on June 17, 2020 with 6 votes, #1,263 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

ARX is a comprehensive open source software for anonymizing sensitive personal data. It supports a wide variety of (1) privacy and risk models, (2) methods for transforming data and (3) methods for analyzing the usefulness of output data.

ARX features a cross-platform graphical software application, which supports data import and cleansing, wizards for creating transformation rules, intuitive ways for tailoring the anonymized dataset to your requirements and functionalities to study output data utility and residual re-identification risks. Learn more ARX is also available as a comprehensive software library with a clean API that delivers data anonymization capabilities to any Java program. The underlying principles, methods, algorithms and data structures have been published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Learn more ARX is not just a tool box, but a fully fledged application. All methods have been…from arx.deidentifier.org

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