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Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

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Re: Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

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post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't mind me asking, What data do you store that you think is PII?

- email address - name

Quite often user profile data as well. Job title and company in a bunch of projects. Sometimes profile pics. Social media accounts. Location or address details - sometimes just coarse location like "Sydney", sometimes exact delivery addresses - sometimes geolocation co-ordinates used for geofencing or smart defaulting (Apple's new coarse geo location is a good thing here, but I wouldn't want to be the test case in court about whether or not that's PII). Phone numbers (if needed, like for SMS alerts or shitty 2fa verification requirements I can;'t talk people out of).

Where I cone from (.au) even an ip address is considered PII under our Privacy Act if it's linkable to another identifier - an ip address on it's own is not PII, but an ip address and an email address makes the ip address into PII as well as the email address. (It's unclear, but this likely includes storing a "last login date" in your email-containing database table that "could" be correlated to a login api call with an ip address in your log files, even if you are not actively doing that.)

Re: Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

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I'm probably not the main audience for this, but if you mention security as a top-level feature it might be good to fix these: https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fclerk.dev https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdashboard.clerk... For me it is also a red flag to include third party CDN JS (especially without SRI) on security critical applications (like the login for the dashboard and customer logins do…

Also eyeballing the team, looks like nobody in particular has a security background. Worrisome...

Re: Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

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post #138

So, first, congrats on launching your product. :) Personally, I don't have a need for it, and if I did, I'd be very reluctant to use a proprietary service, but I'm sure there are companies out there who will be happy to use you. Good luck! ------------ That said, maybe the HN community can answer something I've wondered about... Why isn't there an Open Source, standardized, self-hosted, version of this kind of servic…

Laravel (php) and Django (python) both have easy open source user and auth management.

Re: Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication

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post #138

So, first, congrats on launching your product. :) Personally, I don't have a need for it, and if I did, I'd be very reluctant to use a proprietary service, but I'm sure there are companies out there who will be happy to use you. Good luck! ------------ That said, maybe the HN community can answer something I've wondered about... Why isn't there an Open Source, standardized, self-hosted, version of this kind of servic…

I've been looking into SuperTokens lately. It's very new, but super promising imo: https://supertokens.io/

Thanks! Cofounder of SuperTokens here - please let us know if you have any feedback or questions. I can be reached at advait @ supertokens.io
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