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India Voter ID Card found 172,000 times. How can I disable built-in "Sensitive Info Types"?
When I open up Purview, one of the things I'm greeted with is the image below. I found another forum post and it appears you cannot disable these built-in items. I was also unable to delete them (grayed out).
This is insanely frustrating and seems to be a huge security detriment. I could have a hundred United States SSNs but they would be pushed off this list by literally a million things I don't care about (I know for a fact our documents don't have any India Voter ID cards...).
Even if I could delete the, one by one, there are HUNDREDS of types that are not relevant to us. Is there any way to just disable all the defaults?
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You cannot hide the out-of-the-box Sensitive Information Types
Unfortunately, you cannot disable or delete built-in Sensitive Info Types in Microsoft Purview. Microsoft does not currently provide a toggle to remove or hide these from your tenant. But you can check the locations where this data is located in and which users possess it.
"But you can check the locations where this data is located in and which users possess it."
I think you missed the point. There is no way we have 172,000 instances of Indian ID cards in our files. They're false positives. Since I can't delete patterns that don't apply to us, I'll just always have a **bleep** ton of warnings I guess.
Im in the same boat Scott. I have all of these sensitivity labels pulling up false positive data. We do not process Phillippines or Indonesian data... In the classic portal I could select which infotypes to scan on or search for, but I guess they took this functionality out? I will most likely set up a Microsoft ticket at some point to see if there's way to filter all this false positive date out.
