PII anonymization made easy by Presidio

Background of anonymization and how to build an anonymizer

With various regulations following the enforcement of GDPR in Europe, properly handling sensitive information, specifically Personally Identifiable Information(PII) became a requirement for many companies. In this article, we discuss what PII is and how we can anonymize PII in unstructured data — text in particular. We’ll also demonstrate an example implementation of a text anonymizer using Microsoft Presidio, an open-source library that provides fast PII …

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