Control what PII Data is Collected
We're introducing a new feature that lets you directly control what PII (personally identifiable information) data Pipe will collect and store together with each recording.
Until now, it has been possible to enable PII data anonymization, which means that we deleted the data after processing it.
The PII data in question are:
- IP
- User agent
- HTTP referer
- Camera name
- Microphone name
Historically, Pipe collected all of it, and by default, this remains unchanged. However, now you can enable or disable the collection of any PII data individually.
The HTTP referer, microphone name and camera name are collected through the recording client. The IP and user agent are collected by the ingestion server.
Configuring PII data collection
You can access this new setting when you create a new environment or when you edit one of your environments.
The setting is named PII Data Collection
Some considerations
Disabling the collection of any PII data means that the data won't be available at all.
So this will affect the data present in:
- the
video_recordedwebhook - REST API results
- Recordings dashboard
- Recordings exports
- Recorder logs
Only the HTTP referer, IP, and user agent are collected for uploads made through the desktop recording client and any recording uploaded through the native mobile recording client. The camera and microphone name are not available, so they are not collected.
For this setting to work correctly for the HTTP referer, camera name and microphone name, you need to use the latest version of the 2.0 recording client (pipe.js hosted by us). If, for some reason, you're self-hosting pipe.js, you need the 21st of October 2024 release or newer.
