Germany identity card number

Format

since 1 November 2010: Nine to 11 letters and digits

from 1 April 1987 until 31 October 2010: 10 digits

Pattern

since 1 November 2010: 9 to 11 characters alphanumeric pattern

• one L, M, N, P, R, T, V, W, X, Y (case insensitive)
• eight digits or letters in C, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, T, V, W, X, Y and Z (case insensitive)
• optional check digit
• Optional d/D

from 1 April 1987 until 31 October 2010:

• 10 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_german_id_card_with_check finds content that matches the pattern.
• A keyword from Keyword_germany_id_card 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 regular expression Regex_germany_id_card finds content that matches the pattern (9 characters without check digit issued pre-2010 or 10 digits pattern issued posy 2010).
• A keyword from Keyword_germany_id_card is found.

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

• The function Func_german_id_card_with_check finds content that matches the pattern.
• The checksum passes.

      <!-- Germany Identity Card Number -->
      <Entity id="e577372f-c42e-47a0-9d85-bebed1c237d4" patternsProximity="300" recommendedConfidence="75">
        <Pattern confidenceLevel="75">
         <IdMatch idRef="Regex_germany_id_card" />
         <Match idRef="Keyword_germany_id_card" />
        </Pattern>
        <Version minEngineVersion="15.20.4545.000">
          <Pattern confidenceLevel="85">
           <IdMatch idRef="Func_german_id_card_with_check" />
            <Match idRef="Keyword_germany_id_card" />
          </Pattern>
          <Pattern confidenceLevel="65">
           <IdMatch idRef="Func_german_id_card_with_check" />
          </Pattern>
        </Version>
      </Entity>

Keywords

Keyword_germany_id_card

• ausweis
• gpid
• identification
• identifikation
• identifizierungsnummer
• identity card
• identity number
• id-nummer
• personal id
• personalausweis
• persönliche id nummer
• persönliche identifikationsnummer
• persönliche-id-nummer