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

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**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** privacy\
**Created:** [11 Febrero, 2015 09:55 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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**Post date:** [12 Febrero, 2015 11:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-encrypt-the-email-addresses-for-compliance-with-privacy-and-pii-laws/25122/4 "2015-02-12T11:27:19Z")

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What are the things that would break if I implement encryption / decryption by simply overriding the getter and setter methods in the model? SQL queries on the email column will break for one. But what else?

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