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title: Platform Privacy
description: Privacy enables you to mask the sensitive date on the instance.
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# Platform Privacy

Privacy enables you to mask the sensitive date on the instance.

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 [Use Data Privacy to classify sensitive data and to remove personally identifiable information \(PII\) from user data in a production instance and anonymize data in non-production instances.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/data-privacy-classic/data-privacy-landing.md)

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 [Use Data Discovery to identify sensitive data within an instance to classify, protect, or report.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/data-discovery/data-discovery-landing.md)

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 Data anonymization provides a way to easily transform data so that it is unidentifiable and more compliant with data privacy regulations.

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 [Group data by type, using pre-defined or user-defined data classifications. If you have an assigned data classification administrator or auditor role, you can administer different data classes or visually analyze the current state of different types of data within the instance.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/data-classification/data-classification.md)

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