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The Hidden GDPR Compliance Gap
GDPR doesn't have a language preference. Article 4(1) defines "personal data" without reference to the language in which it appears. A German Steuer-ID is as protected as a US Social Security Number. A French NIR is as regulated as a UK National Insurance number.
But most PII detection tools were built for English.
Research published at ACL 2024 found that hybrid NLP approaches achieve F1 scores of 0.60-0.83 for European locales — but English-only tools ...