Tools

Metadata Guardian

ID metadata-guardian

pii

Metadata Guardian is a Python package that provides an easy way to protect your data sources by searching its metadata. By searching with data rules, it will detect what you are looking to protect. Using Rust, it makes blazing fast multi-regex matching.

Website
https://github.com/fvaleye/metadata-guardian
Supported types
15

Supported semantic types

IDNameCategoriesCountriesDescription
email Email address PII common, internet, pii global Address of an electronic mailbox in the form local-part@domain, defined in section 3.4.1 of RFC 5322. The local part names the mailbox,...
phone Phone number PII pii, common, telecom global Telephone number in standard format (RFC3966), without 'tel:' prefix
ipv4 IPv4 address PII internet, pii global 32-bit address of Internet Protocol version 4 (RFC 791), written in dotted-decimal notation as four numbers from 0 to 255, such as...
ipv6 IPv6 address PII internet, pii global 128-bit address of Internet Protocol version 6, written as eight groups of up to four hexadecimal digits separated by colons (RFC 4291,...
ipaddr IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) PII internet, pii global Address of a network interface in the Internet Protocol: a 32-bit IPv4 address in dotted-decimal form (192.0.2.1) or a 128-bit IPv6...
postindex Postal code/index PII geo, pii, common global Postal index/code, unique post identifier used in address
address Address (physical location) PII common, pii, geo global Geographic address, commonly consist of postindex, country, area, town, street and building
person_firstname Person firstname PII persons, pii global First name of the person. For example, Donald or Vladimir or Jack
person_surname Person surname/lastname PII persons, pii global Last name of the person. For example, Smith or Ivanova
person_fullname Person fullname PII draft persons, pii global Full name of the person as combination of last, first, and sometimes middle name
birthday Birthday PII pii, datetime global A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person, or figuratively of an institution. Birthdays of people are celebrated in...
gender Gender PII draft pii, persons global Gender flag and/or any other identification value
nationality Person nationality PII draft pii, persons global Nationality of the person from list of unique code from one of code lists or defined somehow else.
username Username PII draft pii, persons global Name of the user or login, commonly used for authentication or user identification purposes
password Password PII draft common, pii global Passwords, usually associated with login/username/email.

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