Hi folks Has anyone managed to find a way to encrypt data a user captures in a Glide app before it gets sent to the source Google Sheet or Glide table? For example, for encrypting personal data so that Glide admins can’t view this information in the data editor etc. Or does this require some kind of custom code to be able to pull that off? Thanks in advance.

I haven’t…but if anyone else has been able to do this, please reply!

The following thread could be of interest to you. [image] App Security Questions Key phase here is that data isn’t downloaded to the device…meaning that it can’t be used by the app. And really, there isn’t anything preventing the developer from turning off the protection and viewing the data. I think it’s more useful in cases where you have an existing table with columns that should not be used by an app, for example, like in the U.S. where we should never share an SSN or Tax ID. If you happen to have an existing table of data that contains a tax id, but is not needed by…

Thank you! I thought as much, but thanks for referring this thread. Ah well :slight_smile:

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nathanaelb September 18, 2022, 10:36pm 3

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