How to obfuscate fields that drive app logic (e.g. patient age)?

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Audience asks how to obfuscate a field like date of birth when the app has logic that depends on it (e.g. kids under 3 for early intervention, triggering caretaker references). Sergyenko's answer: either write a custom generator for that field or extend Faker with your own library; in their project they shift date of birth by a small random number of days so the exact birthday is lost but the age bracket and downstream logic remain coherent — a hack that works.

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Use a custom generator or extend Faker's dictionaries; for dates of birth, shift by a small random number of days so age bracket is preserved but exact birthday becomes untraceable.