PostHog Data Handling

Overview

Privacy-safe analytics with PostHog. Covers property sanitization to strip PII before events leave the browser, consent-based tracking (opt-in/opt-out), GDPR data subject access requests and deletion, and PostHog's built-in privacy controls (IP masking, session recording masking).

Prerequisites

• PostHog project (Cloud or self-hosted)
• posthog-js and/or posthog-node installed
• Privacy policy covering analytics data collection
• Cookie consent mechanism (e.g., CookieConsent banner)

Instructions

Step 1: Privacy-Safe Initialization

import posthog from 'posthog-js';