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A Boolean PII Flag Is Not Enough

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A software architect at FernUniversität in Hagen argues that a single boolean PII flag in data catalogs discards what privacy audits need. He proposes classifying columns on two axes, sensitivity and processing state, plus a provenance tag marking whether a classification was declared by a human or inherited through lineage…

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