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Dev tools · March 11, 2020

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Refinery – Data anonymization and governance for the masses

https://www.openquery.io/refinery We are Christos, Damien and Nodar, founders of OpenQuery. We are building Refinery, an Open Source deployment written in Rust to automate the process of anonymizing sensitive data and governing how different consumers access that data using our 'policy-as-code' framework (It's based on Hashicorp's HCL). We noticed that companies have been solving the same problem over and over in different ways. The problem boils down to giving a data-consumer (this could be an analyst, a BI tool, an ML workflow, a different company etc. ) access to a…

Refinery – Data anonymization and governance for the masses launched on March 11, 2020 with 11 votes, #1,077 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Refinery is an open-source tool written in Rust that automates data anonymization and access control. It uses a policy-as-code framework to let organizations define rules for how different users—analysts, BI tools, ML workflows, or external partners—can access sensitive datasets. The tool handles various data types including spatial, financial, and health information, and manages governance concerns like data crossing borders or leaving an organization.

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https://www.openquery.io/refinery We are Christos, Damien and Nodar, founders of OpenQuery. We are building Refinery, an Open Source deployment written in Rust to automate the process of anonymizing sensitive data and governing how different consumers access that data using our 'policy-as-code'…

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