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New tool adds Canadian PII detection to Microsoft Presidio

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Arthur, a systems engineer at Geek+, developed an open-source Python package called canpii to enhance Microsoft Presidio's ability to detect Canadian Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Standard Presidio struggles with Canadian identifiers like provincial health numbers and business numbers, often misclassifying them or failing to detect them entirely. Canpii introduces specific recognizers for these Canadian PII types, incorporating validation rules such as checksums and embedded dates where available, and addresses issues like context word matching that can lead to misidentification. AI

IMPACT Enhances PII detection accuracy for Canadian data, potentially improving compliance and security for organizations handling sensitive information.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new open-source tool developed to enhance an existing PII detection system.

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New tool adds Canadian PII detection to Microsoft Presidio

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Arthur Jin ·

    What Presidio misses for Canadian PII, and what I did about it

    <p>I'm Arthur, a systems engineer at Geek+ in Toronto, where I work on warehouse automation integrations. This post is about <a href="https://github.com/ArthurJZL/canpii" rel="noopener noreferrer">canpii</a>, an open-source package I wrote that adds Canadian identifiers to <a hre…

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