Enabling Efficient Personally Identifiable Information Detection with Automatic Consent Discovery

Abstract

Personal data leakage prevention has now become a critical issue for implementing data management and sharing in many industries. Several data privacy regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) have been issued to enforce organizations to collect, process, and transfer personally identifiable information (PII) securely. In this paper, we propose a design and development of PII RapidDiscover, an efficient Thai and English PII discovery system featured with automatic consent discovery. At the core of our proposed system, we introduce the PII scanning algorithm based on the Presidio library and a natural language processing (NLP) technique to improve the scan result of PII written in Thai and English. Finally, we conducted the experiments to demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed system.