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The Invisible Compliance Tax
PII detection tools are typically evaluated on recall — what percentage of actual PII did the tool catch? But precision — what percentage of the tool's detections are actual PII — determines the operational cost of using the tool.
A system with 95% recall and 22.7% precision catches 95% of real PII but for every real PII entity detected, it flags 3.4 false positives. In a dataset containing 10,000 real PII entities, this system generates 10,000 / 0.227 ≈ 44,000...