UAE Passport Number
Detects UAE passport 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
- Engine
- universal
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence justification
- Medium confidence: pattern has structural constraints but corroborative keywords are recommended to reduce false positive rates. Context label evidence plus explicit template/example exclusion improves precision for high-risk identifiers. Added context gating and exclusion rules improve precision and reduce incidental matches.
- Detection quality
- Verified
- Jurisdictions
- ae
- Regulations
- UAE PDPL
- Frameworks
- ISO 27001, ISO 27701
- Data categories
- pii, government-id
- Scope
- narrow
- Risk rating
- 8
- Platform compatibility
- Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Compatible, Netskope: Compatible
Pattern
\b\d{7,9}\bCorroborative evidence keywords
passport, travel document, passport number, ID number, identification, ID card, license, permit, registration, certificate, data record, database record, record set, data extract, data export, database table, spreadsheet, data registry, registry entry, master data (+13 more)
Proximity: 300 characters
Should match
1234567— Seven-digit passport number12345678— Eight-digit passport number123456789— Nine-digit passport number
Should not match
123456— Only 6 digits is too short1234567890— Ten digits is too longsample template placeholder number 123456789— Template/sample context should be excluded even when numeric-like values appeartemplate example placeholder record identifier— Template/sample context should be excluded even when anchor words are present
Known false positives
- Generic alphanumeric sequences matching passport format in unrelated contexts. Mitigation: Require corroborative evidence keywords within the proximity window.