Data that can identify someone, such as their name, email address or national ID number. Unity Catalog can find and label it automatically through Data Classification.
Also called personally identifiable information.
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Terms in this definition
- Unity Catalog
Azure Databricks' governance solution covering both data and AI in one place, with centralised permissions, auditing, data discovery and lineage.
- Route table label
Name for a set of route tables in Virtual WAN hubs, used when choosing where routes propagate; Default, for instance, covers the defaultRouteTable of every hub.
- Data classification
Covers the methods Purview uses to recognise sensitive content, from pattern-based types and exact data match to machine-learning classifiers, fingerprinting and OCR. Labelling, DLP and retention all rely on what it detects.
Related terms
- AI-generated comments
Drafted descriptions for Unity Catalog objects and their columns, which Catalog Explorer produces by reading metadata. Someone should check each one before accepting it, and it is not a dependable way of spotting PII.
- GDPR Compliance dashboard
A Defender EASM dashboard that highlights risks to personal-data compliance, for example exposed PII, cookies, login protocols and problems with certificates.
- loggingOptOut
Query parameter in Azure Language that prevents your input from being kept for up to 48 hours for troubleshooting. Most features default it to false; PII and health default it to true.