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You want to offer simpler way for your distribution user to find and distribute their tickets to their guest and avoid data leaks? Activate the address book feature for the distribution tool. |
Solution
The address book is a user-specific simple list of contacts. Each address book item (contact) is then eventually linked to the actual matching contact. However this is achieve without leaking any information about existing contacts. Even better, changes made by the real contact to his/her data does not propagate to address book item. The address book works exactly like the contacts on your phone.
When distributing to a contact of the address book, i.e., to an email address, there are two cases:
- The matching contact (email address) does not exist. Similarly to what happens without the address book, a new contact is created using the data entered by the sender (distribution user). However, on top of that, a link is created between that new contact and the address book entry of the sender. For example, if the address book entry was named "John Secutix" the new contact will also be named "John Secutix"
- The match contact already exists. In this case no contact is created but a link is created between that contact and the address book entry of the sender. For example, the address book entry named "John Secutix" would be linked to the existing contact name "John Doe". Notice that last name is different but not leaked back to the sender of the tickets.
Keeping a link with the actual contact allows to target the right contact even if the contact details, first name, last name and email, are later changed by the contact itself.
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