CCPA, PII and NLP

NER is the task of identifying things like names, organizations, locations, dates/times etc. NER is can used to identify some of the personal information contained within text data. So one can train a deep learning model to classify each word in a sentence either as one of the named entities or not. However, there are several libraries which come with pre-trained models for NER task. Identifying the PII information is very important as it can help in fast retrieval of such information, properly securing the information (by encryption etc) and also controlling access to such information. The Stanford core NLP is a popular NLP library written in Java and comes with pre-trained for various NLP tasks like POS (Part of Speech), NER etc for English and several other languages.