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U.K. national insurance number (NINO)

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This sensitive information type entity is included in the EU National Identification Number sensitive information type. It's also available as a stand-alone sensitive information type entity.

Format

seven characters or nine characters separated by spaces or dashes

Pattern

two possible patterns:

  • two letters (valid NINOs use only certain characters in this prefix, which this pattern validates; not case-sensitive)
  • six digits
  • either 'A', 'B', 'C', or 'D' (like the prefix, only certain characters are allowed in the suffix; not case-sensitive)

OR

  • two letters
  • a space or dash
  • two digits
  • a space or dash
  • two digits
  • a space or dash
  • two digits
  • a space or dash
  • either 'A', 'B', 'C', or 'D'

Checksum

No

Keyword Highlighting

Supported

When keyword highlighting is supported in the contextual summary for a sensitive information type or a trainable classifier, in the Contextual Summary view of activity explorer, the keywords in a document that were matched to a policy are highlighted.

Definition

A DLP policy has high confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

  • The function Func_uk_nino finds content that matches the pattern.
  • A keyword from Keyword_uk_nino is found.

A DLP policy has medium confidence that it's detected this type of sensitive information if, within a proximity of 300 characters:

  • The function Func_uk_nino finds content that matches the pattern.
    <!-- U.K. NINO -->
    <Entity id="16c07343-c26f-49d2-a987-3daf717e94cc" patternsProximity="300" recommendedConfidence="75" relaxProximity="true">
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="85">
        <IdMatch idRef="Func_uk_nino" />
        <Match idRef="Keyword_uk_nino" />
      </Pattern>
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="75">
        <IdMatch idRef="Func_uk_nino" />
      </Pattern>
    </Entity>

Keywords

Keyword_uk_nino

  • national insurance number
  • national insurance contributions
  • protection act
  • insurance
  • social security number
  • insurance application
  • medical application
  • social insurance
  • medical attention
  • social security
  • great britain
  • NI Number
  • NI No.
  • NI #
  • NI#
  • insurance#
  • insurancenumber
  • nationalinsurance#
  • nationalinsurancenumber