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Reminds me of how Airbnb redacts Hawaiian street addresses because they look too much like phone numbers, literally replacing them with a "phone number hidden" string in the host|guest chat.

Moral of the story: make your keys regexable without likelihood of false positives!



I spend a lot of time working with physician data. In the USA, physicians have a registration system called NPI. Apparently, NPI numbers are in the same format as some passport numbers. I know this because I started getting angry warnings about PII sharing until I got our tech team to turn them off.




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