Reference documentation and code samples for the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) V2 API class Google::Cloud::Dlp::V2::EntityId.
An entity in a dataset is a field or set of fields that correspond to a
single person. For example, in medical records theEntityIdmight be a
patient identifier, or for financial records it might be an account
identifier. This message is used when generalizations or analysis must take
into account that multiple rows correspond to the same entity.
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