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Life & fun · October 4, 2024

PII Detective, Leveraging LLMs for Cost-Effective PII Detection

PII Detective is a web application designed to identify, classify, and protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in data platforms such as BigQuery and Snowflake. It leverages LLMs to identify PII column names, and with human-in-the-loop validation, uses Dynamic Data Masking Policies to easily enforce Access Control Limits (ACLs) while minimizing user friction. For comparison, GCP has a "Sensitive Data Protection" service which promises similar functionality, but it can become extremely costly since it runs hundreds of regex queries on the entire contents of the table. For…

PII Detective, Leveraging LLMs for Cost-Effective PII Detection launched on October 4, 2024 with 6 votes, #1,611 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

PII detection platform, leveraging human-in-the-loop AI - kpolley/PIIDetective

In the maker’s words, at launch

PII Detective is a web application designed to identify, classify, and protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in data platforms such as BigQuery and Snowflake. It leverages LLMs to identify PII column names, and with human-in-the-loop validation, uses Dynamic Data Masking Policies to easily enforce Access…

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