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Canada social insurance number

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Format

nine digits with optional hyphens or spaces

Pattern

Formatted:

  • three digits
  • a hyphen or space
  • three digits
  • a hyphen or space
  • three digits

Unformatted: nine digits

Checksum

Yes

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_canadian_sin finds content that matches the pattern.
  • At least one of the following patterns:
    • A keyword from Keyword_sin is found.
    • A keyword from Keyword_sin_collaborative is found.
  • The checksum passes.

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_unformatted_canadian_sin finds content that matches the pattern.
  • A keyword from Keyword_sin is found.
  • The checksum passes.
    <!-- Canada Social Insurance Number -->
    <Entity id="a2f29c85-ecb8-4514-a610-364790c0773e" patternsProximity="300" recommendedConfidence="75">
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="85">
        <IdMatch idRef="Func_canadian_sin" />
        <Any minMatches="1">
          <Match idRef="Keyword_sin" />
          <Match idRef="Keyword_sin_collaborative" />
        </Any>
      </Pattern>
      <Pattern confidenceLevel="75">
        <IdMatch idRef="Func_unformatted_canadian_sin" />
        <Match idRef="Keyword_sin" />
      </Pattern>
    </Entity>

Keywords

Keyword_sin

  • sin
  • social insurance
  • numero d'assurance sociale
  • sins
  • ssn
  • ssns
  • social security
  • numero d'assurance social
  • national identification number
  • national id
  • sin#
  • soc ins
  • social ins
  • NAS (case sensitive)
  • numéro d’assurance social
  • numéro d’assurance sociale
  • assurance social
  • carte d’assurance sociale

Keyword_sin_collaborative

  • driver's license
  • drivers license
  • driver's licence
  • drivers licence
  • DOB
  • Birthdate
  • Birthday
  • Date of Birth