Using Data Loss Prevention API

The DLP API is a service from GCP which understands raw data and identifies sensitive data. In addition to its ability to identify, the DLP API can also redact sensitive data. There are more than 50 detectors handled by the API and it can classify both text and images streams from applications and storage systems. The DLP API is designed  to handle the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other compliance requirements of an application. This recipe gives you  hands-on usage of the DLP API via a Python program.

Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verification steps, which are required before the recipe can be executed:

1. Create or select a GCP project.
2. Enable billing...