Direct and Indirect Personal Identifiers: What are they?

Personal Identifiers

In this blog post, we examine the two types of Personal Identifiers: direct and quasi- (or indirect) identifiers, why we care about distinguishing them, and what challenges they pose regarding compliance with data privacy laws and regulations. In short, both direct and quasi-identifiers refer to pieces of information that can be used to identify an … Read more

What Is Sensitive Information?

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Data privacy is becoming an increasingly important topic in an increasingly digitized world where powerful technologies are more and more able to sift through datasets unmanageable for the human mind. Big Data analytics is not only able to detect general trends from the wealth of data available, but it can draw out valuable insights and … Read more

What are PII, PCI, and PHI?

What is PII

In an increasingly digital world where customer data is being collected at various touchpoints, the protection of personal information is becoming increasingly important for businesses worldwide. There are three core types of personal information that global privacy regulations require protection of: Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Payment Card Industry (PCI) data, and Protected Health Information (PHI). … Read more

The Cost of a Data Breach

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The latest data breaches are a regular topic in the news. Raising awareness about the prevalence and severity of the issue, as well as how the financial impact on the business can be limited is what we contribute with this article. We thereby focus on the tangible immediate and long-term costs and the aggravating and … Read more

How Personal Data Identification and Redaction Can Help Satisfy Privacy by Design – ISO 31700-1:2023

On February 8, 2023, the International Organization for Standardization adopted privacy by design in ISO 31700:2023 as a voluntary standard for organizations to implement into their operations. The adoption of this standard further manifests a shift in the field of data privacy. After Article 25 of the GDPR made it a mandatory requirement, the ISO … Read more

What Companies Should Know About PII & Protecting It

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is any data that can be used to identify an individual. This can be done using direct identifiers (name, social security number, etc.) which are unique to an individual, or using quasi-identifiers (date of birth, race, postal code, etc.) which in isolation cannot pinpoint an individual, but in conjunction with multiple … Read more

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Arabic
Belarusian
Bengali
Bulgarian
Burmese
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
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Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Khmer
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Malay
Mandarin (simplified)
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Norwegian (Bokmål)
Persian (Farsi)
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese

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Testé sur un ensemble de données composé de données conversationnelles désordonnées contenant des informations de santé sensibles. Téléchargez notre livre blanc pour plus de détails, ainsi que nos performances en termes d’exactitude et de score F1, ou contactez-nous pour obtenir une copie du code d’évaluation.

99.5%+ Accuracy

Number quoted is the number of PII words missed as a fraction of total number of words. Computed on a 268 thousand word internal test dataset, comprising data from over 50 different sources, including web scrapes, emails and ASR transcripts.

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