Last date modified: 2025-Nov-06

Unstructured document review

Data Breach Response identifies personal information located within documents, reducing the manual burden on reviewers. When reviewing unstructured documents, the goal is to validate the predictions highlighted by the AI.

Names are highlighted blue, while non-name pieces of PI are highlighted pink.

An image of a non-spreadsheet document in the Document Viewer

Capturing PI

Add or remove PI by following the procedures below.

Adding PI

To add PI:

  1. Select the text for annotation using the cursor.
  2. Right click on the document to open the Context Menu.
  3. From the Context Menu, select Personal Information. Click Add.

    An image of the Add option found within the context menu

  4. From the Add PI Detection modal, select the PI type for the auto-filled PI value. You cannot change this text without re-highlighting it.
  5. Click Save.

Editing PI

To edit PI in the document viewer:

  1. Right click the highlighted PI to edit.
  2. From the Context Menu, select Personal Information. Click Edit.

  3. From the Edit PI Detection modal, update desired value in the PI Value field.
  4. From the Edit PI modal, update desired type in the PI Type dropdown

  5. Click Save.

To edit PI in the coding panel:

  1. Click Edit icon (pencil) on the PI Annotation card you want to edit.
  2. From the Edit PI modal, update desired value in the PI Value field.
  3. From the Edit PI modal, update desired type in the PI Type dropdown.
  4. Click Save.

Removing PI

To remove PI from the document viewer:

  1. Right click the highlighted PI to remove it.
  2. From the Context Menu, select Personal Information. Click Remove.

    An image of the Remove option found within the context menu

  3. Click Remove on the confirmation modal.

To remove PI from the PI Detection panel:

  1. Locate the PI you would like to remove from the list in the PI Detection panel.
  2. Click the trash can icon next to the PI.

    An image of the delete PI icon.
  3. Click Remove on the confirmation modal.



Adding drawn annotations

In some cases, PI detections cannot be made on a document due to poor OCR quality. In these instances, PI can be recorded by doing the following:

Drawn annotations can be applied to all unstructured document types.

  1. In the PI Detection panel, select Draw Annotation.

    An image of the Draw Annotation button in the PI Detection panel
  2. Draw a box over the text that contains the PI to record.

    AN image of a box drawn over text containing PI.
  3. A panel will appear in the Draw Annotation section of the PI Detection panel.

    Enter the PI Value and PI Type.

    An image of the PI Detection panel showing PI Value and PI Type options
  4. Click Save.

Creating entity linkages

Linkages are relationships between names and other personal information in a document. For example, in the image below, there is a link between the annotation for Jessica Kessler (person), her account number, and her credit card expiration date. It is important to note that for information to appear in the Entity Report, it is not enough to only tag the personal information within the document. To appear on the Entity Report, individuals and their personal information must be linked in the viewer.

An example image showing a link between an entity and their information.

Adding linkages through the Linked Entities panel

To add linkages through the Linked Entities panel:

  1. Select the + icon in the Linked Entities panel.

  2. Select the individual from the Entity drop-down menu.
  3. Add the PI Value and Type of the value to link.

    An image of the Linked Entites panel showing Pi Value and PI Type options
  4. Repeat Step 3 for each additional PI to link to that entity.
  5. Click the Checkmark button when done.

Removing linkages

To remove linkages:

  1. Navigate to the entity to remove linkages for in the Linked Entities panel.
  2. Select the Unlinkicon next to the PI value to unlink.

Locking detections

For PI detections to be preserved on a document when Data Analysis is rerun, PI must be saved before moving on to the next document when reviewing.

To save PI detections before Data Analysis is run, click the Lock Annotations button in the PI Detections panel. You can continue to make changes and Add/Edit/Remove PI after a document is locked. Those updates will remain on the document.

Changes can not be made while Data Analysis is running.

An image of the Lock Annotations button

If you do not want to preserve any manual PI Detections that were added on the document, select Unlock Annotations.

An image of the Unlock Annotations button

Errors

Personal information will not appear in the PI Detection panel under the following circumstances:

  • Data Analysis has not been run.
  • Data Analysis is in progress.
    • Detections will be available in the PI Detection panel once Data Analysis is complete. While Data Analysis is in progress, the panel will display the following message:

      An image of an error message: "Personal information detection is in progress. Results will appear once it is complete."
  • Data Analysis has failed.
    • If an error has been encountered during PI detection or it has failed, the following message will appear in the PI Detections panel:

      An image of an error message: "Personal information detection encountered an error while running. Please go to the Privacy Workflow tab to remediate."
  • No PI was detected after Data Analysis was run.
    • If a document does not contain PI, the PI detection panel will display a messaging indicating this.
      An image of an error message: "No Personal Informnation detected."

 

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