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sensitive data

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

Information whose loss, misuse, unauthorized access to, modification, or destruction, could adversely affect the national interest or the conduct of federal programs, or privacy to which individuals are entitled, but which has not been specifically authorized to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy, etc.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Data95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

Cui75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
special category of personal data
possessive
sensitive data's