Datatypes

Canada social insurance number (SIN)

ID casin

Social insurance number (SIN) is a number issued in Canada to administer various government programs.

Categories

Personally identifiable information, Person related

Countries

Canada

Languages

English

W3C DPV

pd:OfficialID

FTA

IDENTITY.SIN_CA

Google DLP

CANADA_SOCIAL_INSURANCE_NUMBER

Presidio

CA_SIN

Microsoft Purview

Canada social insurance number

python-stdnum

stdnum.ca.sin

Quality

65/100 · missing: anchored regexp, examples, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)

• casinfield field, ca/ca_tax.yaml
• casinvalue data, ca/ca_tax.yaml

Supported by tools

Amazon Macie, Amazon Comprehend, AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Azure AI Language PII detection, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, DataPrep, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Google Cloud Sensitive Data Protection (DLP), IBM Security Guardium Analyzer, IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), metacrafter, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Nightfall AI, Oracle Data Safe, Microsoft Presidio, python-stdnum, Snowflake sensitive data classification

Regular expression

(\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{3})|(\d{9})

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_insurance_number

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/casin
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/CA/persons/casin.yaml on GitHub