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It often happens that those who develop a specific software product for one customer want to repackage it and sell it to another customer who is interested in similar features. However, if you want to show some screenshots of the software in a demo to the new customer, you should avoid showing any data that might be sensitive. Getting in there and trying to manually mask the data from a copy of the original software database was definitely one of the tasks the poor hapless developer had to do in the past, maybe even a few days before the demo.The scenario described does not require data to be shared with a third party recipient, but is intended to successfully demonstrate a product to a customer by displaying simulated data. Therefore, there is no concern about a potential brute force attack by professional analysts to derive the original data prior to the de-identification operation.Things definitely change when...
