Anonymise

Municipality of Noordoostpolder

Recognising and anonymising privacy-sensitive information in documents

Last change on 30th of May 2024, at 14:12 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0

• Publication category: Other algorithms
• Impact assessment: Field not filled in.
• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Organisation and business operations

Begin date

01-2022

Contact information

[e-mail]

Link to publication website

https://noordoostpolder.nl/privacy

Responsible use

Goal and impact

We use a tool to mask personal data. We do this when making decisions available for inspection and when requesting documents for, for example, objections, Woo requests and other information requests.

Impact is low: The algorithm searches specifically for personal data and masks it regardless of the further content of documents.

Considerations

This tool helps us recognise and quickly (and digitally) mask personal data.

Human intervention

An employee does a check on the fields to be anonymised. If necessary, manual adjustments are made to these.

Risk management

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Legal basis

Environmental Law (General Provisions) Act (Wabo)

Open Government Act (WOO)

General Administrative Law Act (Abw)

Operations

Data

It is possible to fill value lists of which data are not visible and which ones are.

Technical design

The tool works with Natural Language Processing (NLP).NLP is a part of Artificial Intelligence (AI) where language and artificial intelligence come together. For example, texts can be classified by recognising what the subject of the sentence is or what a verb or name is, for example. Through AI, the software recognises more and more terms.

External provider

E-specialists