Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) is now a part of Sensitive Data Protection. The API name remains the same: Cloud Data Loss Prevention API (DLP API). For information about the services that make up Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection overview .

Text classification and redaction

Text classification

Given the following text input:

Please update my records with the following information:
Email address: foo@example.com

National Provider Identifier: 1245319599

Driver's license: AC333991

The output is a list of findings, organized into the following categories:

InfoType
Likelihood
Offset (Where in the string the potential InfoType was found)

Example output is shown in the table below.

`InfoType`	`Likelihood`	`Offset`
`US_HEALTHCARE_NPI`	`VERY_LIKELY`	`122`
`EMAIL_ADDRESS`	`LIKELY`	`72`
`US_DRIVERS_LICENSE_NUMBER`	`LIKELY`	`155`
`CANADA_BC_PHN`	`VERY_UNLIKELY`	`122`
`UK_TAXPAYER_REFERENCE`	`VERY_UNLIKELY`	`122`
`CANADA_PASSPORT`	`VERY_UNLIKELY`	`155`

Automatic text redaction

Automatic redaction produces an output with sensitive data matches removed instead of giving you a list of findings.

Example automation redaction input:

Please update my records with the following information:
Email address: foo@example.com

National Provider Identifier: 1245319599

Driver's license: AC333991

Example output using a placeholder of "***":

Please update my records with the following information:
Email address: ***

National Provider Identifier: ***

Driver's license: ***

Resources

For more information about using Sensitive Data Protection to redact text, see Redacting Sensitive Data From Text Content .
For more information about using Sensitive Data Protection to de-identify sensitive data in text content—which includes "masking" sensitive data, replacing sensitive data with a "token" string, and encrypting and replacing sensitive data using a randomly generated or pre-determined key—see De-identifying sensitive data in text content .