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sensitive data

nounid 4117·updated May 9, 2026
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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.

MWE

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

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

Sensitivity

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

Information Class

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

Variants

synonym
special category of personal data
possessive
sensitive data's

Framework definitions

SEC IM Guidance Update: Cybersecurity Guidance, No. 2015-021 senseview framework →
§1
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.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
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.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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