Australian Privacy Act Essentials

Core PII detection patterns for Australian Privacy Act 1988 compliance. Covers government identifiers, healthcare numbers, business identifiers, and personal contact information.

Jurisdictions
au
Regulations
Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
Patterns
9

Patterns in this collection

Australian Business Number

Detects Australian Business Numbers (ABNs), which are unique 11-digit identifiers issued by the Australian Business Register to entities carrying on a business in Australia. ABNs are commonly formatted as groups of 2-3-3-3 digits separated by spaces or hyphens. The ABN includes a check digit mechanism, but this pattern relies on format matching combined with corroborative evidence rather than algorithmic validation.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Centrelink Customer Reference Number

Detects candidate Centrelink Customer Reference Numbers consisting of 9 digits followed by a letter. The bare shape is not unique and requires a CRN/Centrelink label for enforcement.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

Australian Company Number

Detects Australian Company Number patterns. This pattern is based on a Microsoft Purview built-in sensitive information type. Users already running Purview may prefer to enable the built-in SIT directly, or use this version as a starting point for customisation.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Australia Medicare Card Identifier

Identifies Australian Medicare card numbers (10-11 digits, first digit 2-6). Filters same-digit sequences. Requires corroborative health-scheme keywords for reliable detection.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Australian Driver's Licence Number

Discovery-only compatibility coverage for Australian driver's licence number candidates across all states and territories. The stable au-motor-vehicle-permit slug is retained for catalogue, collection, workbook, and package compatibility. State and territory enforcement belongs to the eight au-*-driver-licence-number SITs. Microsoft Purview tenants can instead select the free built-in Australia Driver's License Number entity (1cbbc8f5-9216-4392-9eb5-5ac2298d1356); this compatibility pattern is not a custom clone of that built-in.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

NDIS Participant Number

Detects NDIS Participant Number patterns. A 9-digit number starting with the prefix 43.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

Australian Taxation Identifier

Identifies Australian Tax File Numbers (TFNs) — unique nine-digit identifiers issued by the Australian Taxation Office. Uses an inline mod-11 Checksum validator with AllDigitsSameFilter and TextMatchFilter to exclude known test values.

Type
regex
Confidence
high

Australian Passport Number

Identifies candidate Australian passport numbers using a broad one- or two-letter prefix followed by seven digits. The regex does not validate an issued passport series; Australian travel-document and issuing-nation evidence are required for enforcement.

Type
regex
Confidence
low

Electronic Mail Address

Identifies electronic mail addresses in local-part@domain.tld form using a pragmatic RFC 5322 / WHATWG HTML Living Standard subset: bounded local-part (64 characters, per RFC 5321) and domain-label quantifiers, not the full RFC 5322 address-list grammar (no quoted-string local parts, comments, or domain literals). Unlike the WHATWG "valid e-mail address" definition, a dotted domain ending in an alphabetic (or xn-- punycode) top-level label is required, so dotless intranet values such as user@localhost are deliberately excluded. Retina image asset names (logo@2x.png) are rejected in the primary. Absorbs the former global-email-address classifier.

Type
regex
Confidence
high