# How to encrypt the email addresses for compliance with privacy and PII laws?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-encrypt-the-email-addresses-for-compliance-with-privacy-and-pii-laws/25122>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** privacy\
**Created:** [11.Февраль.2015 09:55:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-encrypt-the-email-addresses-for-compliance-with-privacy-and-pii-laws/25122 "2015-02-11T09:55:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![nileshtrivedi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nileshtrivedi/32/37212_2.png) [@nileshtrivedi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nileshtrivedi)\
**Post date:** [11.Февраль.2015 09:55:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-encrypt-the-email-addresses-for-compliance-with-privacy-and-pii-laws/25122/1 "2015-02-11T09:55:50Z")

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We are a financial organization and are required to comply with privacy laws of various countries that asks us to encrypt all “[Personally Identifiable Information](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_information)”. Email address falls into that category so we want to have Discourse setup in a way that users’ email addresses are stored in encrypted form and offer at least some protection against hackers, SQL injection attacks and/or rogue employees.

Is this feature available? If no, what’s the best way to implement this?

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