README.md
In detector: Detect Data Containing Personally Identifiable Information

detector

detector makes detecting data containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) quick, easy, and scalable. It provides high-level functions that can take vectors and data.frames and return important summary statistics in a convenient data.frame. Once complete, detector will be able to detect the following types of PII:

Full name
Home address
E-mail address
National identification number
Passport number
Social Security number
IP address
Vehicle registration plate number
Driver's license number
Credit card number
Date of birth
Birthplace
Telephone number
Latitude and longtiude

E-mail address
Telephone number
National identification number

Credit card number

Full name
Date of birth
Home address
IP address
Vehicle registration plate number
Driver's license number
Birthplace
Latitude and longtiude

You can install:

the latest released version from CRAN with

r install.packages("detector")
the latest development version from github with

r if (packageVersion("devtools") < 1.6) { install.packages("devtools") } devtools::install_github("paulhendricks/detector")

If you encounter a clear bug, please file a minimal reproducible example on github.

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
library(generator)
n <- 6
ashley_madison <- 
  data.frame(name = r_full_names(n), 
             email = r_email_addresses(n), 
             phone_number = r_phone_numbers(n, use_hyphens = TRUE, 
                                            use_spaces = TRUE), 
             stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
ashley_madison %>% 
  knitr::kable(format = "markdown")

| name | email | phone_number | |:---------------------|:-------------------------|:---------------| | Leonardo Rodriguez | xed@be.eny | 254- 851- 6814 | | Dee Rice | ecfoa@rtnlyudbe.yhj | 597- 978- 5193 | | Conception Marquardt | wnz@xid.anc | 184- 962- 8153 | | Collette Nitzsche | tqghfxe@fsleqhmnjd.wkh | 475- 723- 2947 | | Norman Pfannerstill | oyhl@szxby.mag | 153- 674- 4219 | | Katelin Gislason | vq@zatsl.wyg | 831- 847- 1568 |

library(detector)
ashley_madison %>% 
  detect %>% 
  knitr::kable(format = "markdown")

| column_name | has_email_addresses | has_phone_numbers | has_national_identification_numbers | |:--------------|:----------------------|:--------------------|:---------------------------------------| | name | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | | email | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | | phone_number | FALSE | TRUE | FALSE |