Sensitive Data Classification: Preserving user-specified tag values (Preview)¶

Snowflake provides the ability to automatically classify sensitive data and apply system classification tags (SEMANTIC_CATEGORY and PRIVACY_CATEGORY) to data deemed to be sensitive. The behavior of this process changes as follows:

Before the change:

When Sensitive Data Classification automatically applied the SEMANTIC_CATEGORY and PRIVACY_CATEGORY tags, it always used values suggested by Snowflake, even if the user had previously set the value of these tags to a different value.

After the change:

If a user manually sets the value of the SEMANTIC_CATEGORY or PRIVACY_CATEGORY tag, automatic Sensitive Data Classification does not overwrite the value of the tag.

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