Operations

Road Map

Last updated July 2026

We will be quickly adding the following features in this order. If you would like something added to PII Crawler or would like to bump a feature to the top, please don't hesitate to reach out to: [email protected].

Items marked with ✅ are completed.

  • ✅ Add export for CSV of every item detected as having PII
  • ✅ Include actual names/numbers/PII that were hit on so false positive review is easier
  • Add all PII found at: https://privacy.ca.gov/protect-your-personal-information/what-is-personal-information/
    • ✅ Passport number
    • ✅ Driver's License Number
    • Username/password combinations
      • ✅ AWS Credentials
    • ✅ Date of birth
    • Geolocation info
    • Health information
    • Financial information
      • ✅ Tax Returns (U.S. ex: 1040, w4, w9, etc.)
      • ✅ Credit Cards
  • Add exlusion list (For example, the owner of the mailbox - exclude their name from the scan)
  • ✅ Exact match
  • ✅ Custom regex rules
  • ✅ Database type flat-files (SQLite, Berkley DB, LevelDB, LMDB, DuckDB, Microsoft Access, etc.)
  • Add support for more file types (e.g. Parquet, ORC, etc.)
  • ✅ Extract form fields from PDFs
  • ✅ Support for mbox files
  • ✅ Support for .pst files
  • ✅ Support for .eml files
  • Support for Canadian PII data types
    • SINs
    • Provincial drivers license numbers
    • Canadian Banks
  • Support for NZ, AU, and DE PII data types
    • Tier 1
      • ✅ NZ: Inland Revenue Department Number (IRD Number)
      • ✅ AU: Tax File Number (TFN)
      • ✅ DE: Tax Identification Number (Steuer-ID)
    • Tier 2
      • ✅ Passport Numbers (all three countries)
      • ✅ Driver's License Numbers (all three countries)
    • Tier 3
      • Healthcare identifiers (NHI in NZ, Medicare in AU)
      • Birth Certificate Numbers (all three countries)
  • Take action on results (remediation)
    • ✅ Action lists: collect files from scan results into named, cross-scan lists
    • ✅ Bulk delete files from disk, with dry-run preview and confirmation
    • ✅ Bulk redact: mask PII in place in plain-text files, preserving file layout
    • ✅ Per-file audit trail of every run (what was deleted/redacted, skipped, or failed)
    • ✅ CLI support for scripting list actions (piicrawler lists)
    • ✅ Quarantine option: move files to a holding folder instead of deleting, with restore
    • ✅ Encrypted quarantine: passphrase-protected copies in the standard age format
    • Redaction for more file formats (PDF, Office documents)
    • ✅ Actions on network share scan results (delete and quarantine, with restore)
  • Support for scanning remote data
    • OneDrive
    • SharePoint
    • Microsoft Teams
    • Amazon S3
    • Google Drive
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • Oracle
    • Postgres
    • MySQL
    • Office 365: Exchange Online
    • Office 365: OneDrive
    • Office 365: Sharepoint Online
    • Microsoft Azure Blob
    • Salesforce
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