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Ireland personal public service (PPS) number

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Format

Old format (until 31 December 2012):

  • seven digits followed by 1-2 letters

New format (1 January 2013 and after):

  • seven digits followed by two letters

Pattern

Old format (until 31 December 2012):

  • seven digits
  • one to two letters (not case-sensitive)

New format (1 January 2013 and after):

  • seven digits
  • a letter (not case-sensitive) which is an alphabetic check digit
  • An optional letter in the range A-I, or "W"

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

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_ireland_pps finds content that matches the pattern.
  • The checksum passes.
      <!-- Ireland Personal Public Service (PPS) Number -->
      <Entity id="1cdb674d-c19a-4fcf-9f4b-7f56cc87345a" patternsProximity="300" recommendedConfidence="85" relaxProximity="true">
        <Pattern confidenceLevel="85">
          <IdMatch idRef="Func_ireland_pps" />
          <Match idRef="Keywords_ireland_eu_national_id_card" />
        </Pattern>
        <Pattern confidenceLevel="65">
          <IdMatch idRef="Func_ireland_pps" />
        </Pattern>
      </Entity>

Keywords

Keywords_ireland_eu_national_id_card

  • client identity service
  • identification number
  • personal id number
  • personal public service number
  • personal service no
  • phearsanta seirbhíse poiblí
  • pps no
  • pps number
  • pps num
  • pps service no
  • ppsn
  • ppsno#
  • ppsno
  • psp
  • public service no
  • publicserviceno#
  • publicserviceno
  • revenue and social insurance number
  • rsi no
  • rsi number
  • rsin
  • seirbhís aitheantais cliant
  • uimh
  • uimhir aitheantais chánach
  • uimhir aitheantais phearsanta
  • uimhir phearsanta seirbhíse poiblí
  • tax id
  • tax identification no
  • tax identification number
  • tax no#
  • tax no
  • tax number
  • tax registration number
  • taxid#
  • taxidno#
  • taxidnumber#
  • taxno#
  • taxnumber#
  • taxnumber
  • tin id
  • tin no
  • tin#