South Africa identification number

Format

13 digits that may contain spaces

Pattern

13 digits:

• six digits in the format YYMMDD, which are the date of birth
• four digits
• a single-digit citizenship indicator
• the digit "8" or "9"
• one digit, which is a checksum digit

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_south_africa_identification_number finds content that matches the pattern.
• A keyword from Keyword_south_africa_identification_number is found.
• The checksum passes.

<!-- South Africa Identification Number -->
<Entity id="e2adf7cb-8ea6-4048-a2ed-d89eb65f2780" recommendedConfidence="85" patternsProximity="300">
  <Pattern confidenceLevel="85">
     <IdMatch idRef="Func_south_africa_identification_number"/>
     <Match idRef="Keyword_south_africa_identification_number"/>
  </Pattern>
</Entity>

Keywords

Keyword_south_africa_identification_number

• Identity card
• ID
• Identification