Additional date formats to be considered during date obfuscation. This allows users to specify custom date formats in addition to the default dateFormats.

List of integers specifying limits of the age groups to preserve during obfuscation

A Boolean variable indicating whether to obfuscate ages based on HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Privacy Rule.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule mandates that ages from patients older than 90 years must be obfuscated, while age for patients 90 years or younger can remain unchanged.

When true, age entities larger than 90 will be obfuscated as per HIPAA Privacy Rule, the others will remain unchanged. When false, ageRanges parameter is valid.

Param that indicates whether consistency should be enforced across different parts of a name (e.g., first name, middle name, last name). When set to true, the same transformation or obfuscation will be applied consistently to all parts of the same name entity, even if those parts appear separately.

For example, if "John Smith" is obfuscated as "Liam Brown", then:

• When the full name "John Smith" appears, it will be replaced with "Liam Brown"
• When "John" or "Smith" appear individually, they will still be obfuscated as "Liam" and "Brown" respectively, ensuring consistency in name transformation.

Default: true

Whether to obfuscate country entities or not. If true, country entities will be obfuscated using the Faker module. If false, country entities will be skipped during obfuscation. Default: false

The dictionary of custom fakers to specify the obfuscation terms for the entities. You can specify the entity and the terms to be used for obfuscation.

List of date entities. Default: Array("DATE", "DOB", "DOD", "EFFDATE", "FISCAL_YEAR")

Format of dates to displace

Number of days to obfuscate the dates by displacement. If not provided a random integer between 1 and 60 will be used

Whether to enable default obfuscation equivalents for common entities. This parameter allows the system to automatically include a set of predefined common English name equivalents. Default: false

It specifies how much length deviation is accepted in obfuscation, with keepTextSizeForObfuscation enabled. Value must be greater than 0. Default is 3.

Select the fixed mask length: this is the length of the masking sequence that will be used when the 'fixed_length_chars' masking policy is selected.

Whether to use gender-aware names or not during obfuscation. This param effects only names. If value is true, it might decrease performance. Default: False

Whether to enforce consistent obfuscation across geographical entities: state, city, street, zip and phone.

## Functionality Overview This parameter enables intelligent geographical entity obfuscation that maintains realistic relationships between different geographic components. When enabled, the system ensures that obfuscated addresses form coherent, valid combinations rather than random replacements.

## Supported Entity Types The following geographical entities are processed with priority order: - **state** (Priority: 0) - US state names - **city** (Priority: 1) - City names - **zip** (Priority: 2) - Zip codes - **street** (Priority: 3) - Street addresses - **phone** (Priority: 4) - Phone numbers

## Language Requirement **IMPORTANT**: Geographic consistency is only applied when: - geoConsistency parameter is set to true AND - language parameter is set to en

For non-English configurations, this feature is automatically disabled regardless of the parameter setting.

## Consistency Algorithm When geographical entities comes from the chunk columns:

1. **Entity Grouping**: All geographic entities are identified and grouped by type 2. **Fake Address Selection**: A consistent set of fake US addresses is selected using hash-based deterministic selection to ensure reproducibility 3. **Priority-Based Mapping**: Entities are mapped to fake addresses following the priority order (state → city → zip → street → phone) 4. **Consistent Replacement**: All entities of the same type within a document use the same fake address pool, maintaining geographical coherence

## Parameter Interactions **IMPORTANT**: Enabling this parameter automatically disables: - keepTextSizeForObfuscation - Text size preservation is not maintained - consistentObfuscation - Standard consistency rules are overridden - file-based fakers

This is necessary because geographic consistency requires specific fake address selection that may not preserve original text lengths or follow standard obfuscation patterns.

default: false

Gets the value of additionalDateFormats

Gets ageRanges param.

Gets the value of ageRangesByHipaa.

Gets the value of consistentAcrossNameParts.

Gets the value of countryObfuscation.

Gets customFakers param.

Gets dateEntities param.

Gets the value of dateFormats

Gets days param

Gets the value of enableDefaultObfuscationEquivalents.

Gets fakerLengthOffset param

Gets fixedMaskLength param.

Gets genderAwareness param.

Gets the value of geoConsistency.

Gets isRandomDateDisplacement param

Gets keepMonth param

Gets keepTextSizeForObfuscation param

Gets keepYear param

Gets language param.

Gets maskingPolicy param.

Gets maxRandomDisplacementDays param

Gets mode param.

Gets obfuscateDate param

Gets obfuscateRefSource param.

Gets the value of obfuscateZipByHipaa.

Gets the value of obfuscationEquivalents.

Gets region param.

Gets selectiveObfuscateRefSource param.

Gets selectiveObfuscationModes param.

Gets unnormalizedDateMode param.

Gets useShiftDays param.

Gets valid ageRanges whether ageRangesByHipaa is true or not.

Use a random displacement days in dates entities,that random number is based on the DeIdentificationParams.seed If true use random displacement days in dates entities,if false use the DeIdentificationParams.days The default value is false.

Whether to keep the month intact when obfuscating date entities. If true, the month will remain unchanged during the obfuscation process. If false, the month will be modified along with the year and day. Default: false.

It specifies whether the output should maintain the same character length as the input text. the output text will remain the same if same length is available, else length might vary.

Whether to keep the year intact when obfuscating date entities. If true, the year will remain unchanged during the obfuscation process. If false, the year will be modified along with the month and day. Default: false.

The language used to select the regex file and some faker entities. 'en'(English),'de'(German), 'es'(Spanish), 'fr'(French), 'ar'(Arabic) or 'ro'(Romanian) Default:'en'

Select the masking policy:

• 'entity_labels': Replace the values with the entity value.
• 'same_length_chars': Replace the name with the asterix with same length minus two plus brackets on both end.If the entity is less than 3 chars (like Jo, or 5), we can just use asterix without brackets.
• 'fixed_length_chars': Replace the obfuscated entity with a masking sequence composed of a fixed number of asterisk.
• 'entity_labels_without_brackets': Replace the values with the entity value without brackets.
• 'same_length_chars_without_brackets': Replace the name with the asterix with same length without brackets.
• Default: 'entity_labels'

Maximum number of days for random date displacement. Default is 1825 (5 years). If isRandomDateDisplacement is true, a random number of days between 1 and maxRandomDisplacementDays will be used for date displacement.

Mode for Anonymizer ['mask' or 'obfuscate']. Default: 'mask'

• Mask mode: The entities will be replaced by their entity types.
• Obfuscate mode: The entity is replaced by an obfuscator's term.

When mode=="obfuscate" whether to obfuscate dates or not. This param helps in consistency to make dateFormats more visible. When setting to true, make sure dateFormats param fits the needs. If the value is true and obfuscation is failed, then unnormalizedDateMode will be activated. When setting to 'false', then the date will be masked to <DATE>. Default: false

The source of obfuscation to obfuscate the entities. The values ar the following: 'file': Takes the entities from the obfuscatorRefFile 'faker': Takes the entities from the Faker module 'both': Takes the entities from the obfuscatorRefFile and the faker module randomly.

Whether to apply HIPAA Safe Harbor ZIP code obfuscation rules.

When enabled (true), ZIP/ZIP+4 obfuscation follows the HIPAA Safe Harbor guidance:

1. The algorithm extracts the first five digits from the input (accepting formats like "12345", "12345-6789", "123456789" and tolerant forms). 2. If the first three-digit ZIP prefix is in the HIPAA restricted list (the 17 prefixes derived from 2000 Census data), the ZIP MUST be suppressed to the canonical value "000**". 3. Otherwise, the ZIP is generalized to the first three digits followed by "**" (i.e. XXX**). The +4 portion will be masked with asterisks if present.

When disabled (false), HIPAA-specific ZIP obfuscation is not applied and the component's default/custom ZIP obfuscation is used instead.

Implementation notes and cautions:

• The restricted 3-digit list (e.g. "036", "059", "063", ...) is historically based on Census 2000 ZCTA data.
• The implementation should handle malformed or missing inputs defensively; typically inputs that do not contain at least five digits should be suppressed (e.g. return "000**").
• See HHS guidance for full de-identification context: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/de-identification/index.html

variant-to-canonical entity mappings to ensure consistent obfuscation.

This method allows you to define equivalence rules for entity variants that should be obfuscated the same way. For example, the names "Alex" and "Alexander" will always be mapped to the same obfuscated value if they are linked to the same canonical form.

It accepts an array of string triplets, where each triplet defines:

• variant: A non-standard, short, or alternative form of a value (e.g., "Alex")
• entityType: The type of the entity (e.g., "NAME", "STATE", "COUNTRY")
• canonical: The standardized form all variants map to (e.g., "Alexander")

variant and entityType comparisons are case-insensitive during processing.

This is especially useful in de-identification tasks to ensure consistent replacement of semantically identical values. It also allows cross-variant normalization across different occurrences of sensitive data.

With this property, you can select particular dateFormats. This property is especially used when obfuscating dates. You can decide whether the first part of 11/11/2023 is a day or the second part is a day when obfuscating dates.

• The values are following:
• 'eu' for European Union
• 'us' for USA

List of formatted entities to generate the same length outputs as original ones during obfuscation. The supported and default formatted entities are: "phone", "fax", "contact," "id", "idnum", "bioid", "medicalrecord", "zip", "vin", "ssn", "dln", "plate", "license", "IRS", "CFN", "account".

It is the seed to select the entities on obfuscate mode. With the seed, you can reply to an execution several times with the same output.

A map of entity names to their obfuscation modes. This is used to selectively apply different obfuscation methods to specific entities. The keys are entity names and the values are the obfuscation sources. If an entity is not specified in this map, the obfuscateRefSource param is used to determine the obfuscation source.

The dictionary of modes to enable multi-mode deidentification.

• 'obfuscate': Replace the values with random values.
• 'mask_same_length_chars': Replace the name with the asterix with same length minus two plus brackets on both end.
• 'mask_entity_labels': Replace the values with the entity value.
• 'mask_fixed_length_chars': Replace the name with the asterix with fixed length. You can also invoke "setFixedMaskLength()"
• 'mask_entity_labels_without_brackets': Replace the values with the entity value without brackets.
• 'mask_same_length_chars_without_brackets': Replace the name with the asterix with same length without brackets.
• 'skip': Skip the entities (intact)

The entities which have not been given in dictionary will deidentify according to setMode()

Sets additionalDateFormats param

List of integers specifying limits of the age groups to preserve during obfuscation

Sets whether to obfuscate ages based on HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Privacy Rule.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule mandates that ages from patients older than 90 years must be obfuscated, while age for patients 90 years or younger can remain unchanged.

Sets the value of consistentAcrossNameParts.

Sets whether to obfuscate country entities or not. If true, country entities will be obfuscated using the Faker module. If false, country entities will be skipped during obfuscation. Default: false

Sets the value of customFakers. The dictionary of custom fakers to specify the obfuscation terms for the entities. You can specify the entity and the terms to be used for obfuscation.

Example:

new LightDeIdentification()
 .setInputCols(Array("ner_chunk", "sentence")).setOutputCol("dei")
 .setMode("obfuscate")
 .setObfuscateRefSource("custom")
 .setCustomFakers(Map(
     "NAME" -> Array("George", "Taylor"),
     "SCHOOL" -> Array("Oxford", "Harvard"),
     "city" -> Array("ROMA")
 ))

Sets the value of dateEntities. Default: Array("DATE", "DOB", "DOD", "EFFDATE", "FISCAL_YEAR")

Format of dates to displace

Number of days to obfuscate the dates by displacement. If not provided a random integer between 1 and 60 will be used

Sets whether to enable default obfuscation equivalents for common entities. This parameter allows the system to automatically include a set of predefined common English name equivalents. Default: false

Sets fakerLengthOffset param

Sets the value of fixedMaskLength. This is the length of the masking sequence that will be used when the 'fixed_length_chars' masking policy is selected.

Whether to use gender-aware names or not during obfuscation. This param effects only names. If value is true, it might decrease performance. Default: False

Sets the value of geoConsistency. When set to true, it enables consistent obfuscation across geographical entities such as state, city, street, zip, and phone.

Use a random displacement days in dates entities,that random number is based on the DeIdentificationParams.seed If true use random displacement days in dates entities, if false use the DeIdentificationParams.days The default value is false.

Sets whether to keep the month intact when obfuscating date entities. If true, the month will remain unchanged during the obfuscation process. If false, the month will be modified along with the year and day. Default: false.

Sets keepTextSizeForObfuscation param

Sets whether to keep the year intact when obfuscating date entities. If true, the year will remain unchanged during the obfuscation process. If false, the year will be modified along with the month and day. Default: false.

The language used to select the regex file and some faker entities. 'en'(English),'de'(German), 'es'(Spanish), 'fr'(French), 'ar'(Arabic) or 'ro'(Romanian). Default:'en'

Select the masking policy:

• 'entity_labels': Replace the values with the entity value.
• 'same_length_chars': Replace the name with the asterix with same length minus two plus brackets on both end.If the entity is less than 3 chars (like Jo, or 5), we can just use asterix without brackets.
• 'fixed_length_chars': Replace the obfuscated entity with a masking sequence composed of a fixed number of asterisk.
• 'entity_labels_without_brackets': Replace the values with the entity value without brackets.
• 'same_length_chars_without_brackets': Replace the name with the asterix with same length without brackets.
• Default: 'entity_labels'

Sets maxRandomDisplacementDays param

Mode for Anonymizer ['mask'|'obfuscate']. Default: 'mask'

• Mask mode: The entities will be replaced by their entity types.
• Obfuscate mode: The entity is replaced by an obfuscator's term.

When mode=="obfuscate" whether to obfuscate dates or not. This param helps in consistency to make dateFormats more visible. When setting to true, make sure dateFormats param fits the needs. If the value is true and obfuscation is failed, then unnormalizedDateMode will be activated. When setting to 'false' then the date will be masked to <DATE> . Default: false

The source of obfuscation to obfuscate the entities. The values are the following: 'file': Takes the fakes from the obfuscatorRefFile 'faker': Takes the fakes from the Faker module 'both': Takes the fakes from the obfuscatorRefFile and the faker module randomly.

Sets whether HIPAA Safe Harbor ZIP obfuscation rules should be applied.

Behavior:

• true: Apply HIPAA rules as described in obfuscateZipByHipaa: extract five digits, map restricted 3-digit prefixes to \"000**\", otherwise generalize to XXX**. The +4 portion will be masked with asterisks if present.
• false: Do **not** apply HIPAA Safe Harbor behavior; use the component's default/custom ZIP obfuscation instead.

Implementation & defaults:

• Default: false (HIPAA behavior is opt-in). If you want HIPAA Safe Harbor behavior by default, change the default value where the parameter is declared.

Sets variant-to-canonical entity mappings to ensure consistent obfuscation.

This method allows you to define equivalence rules for entity variants that should be obfuscated the same way. For example, the names "Alex" and "Alexander" will always be mapped to the same obfuscated value if they are linked to the same canonical form.

It accepts an array of string triplets, where each triplet defines:

• variant: A non-standard, short, or alternative form of a value (e.g., "Alex")
• entityType: The type of the entity (e.g., "NAME", "STATE", "COUNTRY")
• canonical: The standardized form all variants map to (e.g., "Alexander")

variant and entityType comparisons are case-insensitive during processing.

This is especially useful in de-identification tasks to ensure consistent replacement of semantically identical values. It also allows cross-variant normalization across different occurrences of sensitive data.

Example

val equivalents = Array(
  Array("Alex", "NAME", "Alexander"),
  Array("Rob", "NAME", "Robert"),
  Array("CA", "STATE", "California"),
  Array("Calif.", "STATE", "California")
)

myDeidTransformer.setObfuscationEquivalents(equivalents)

Sets obfuscationEquivalents param.

With this property, you can select particular dateFormats. This property is especially used when obfuscating dates. You can decide whether the first part of 11/11/2023 is a day or the second part is a day when obfuscating dates. The values are following:

• 'eu' for European Union
• 'us' for USA

List of formatted entities to generate the same length outputs as original ones during obfuscation. The supported and default formatted entities are: PHONE, FAX, CONTACT, ID, IDNUM, BIOID, MEDICALRECORD, ZIP, VIN, SSN, DLN, LICENSE, PLATE, IRS, CFN, ACCOUNT.

It is the seed to select the entities on obfuscate mode. With the seed, you can reply to an execution several times with the same output.

Sets the value of selectiveObfuscateRefSource. This is used to selectively apply different obfuscation methods to specific entities. The keys are entity names and the values are the obfuscation sources. If an entity is not specified in this map, the obfuscateRefSource param is used to determine the obfuscation method. The values can be: - 'file': Takes the fakes from the file. - 'faker': Takes the fakes from the embedded faker module. - 'both': Takes the fakes from the file and the faker module.

Sets the value of selectiveObfuscationModes. The dictionary of modes to enable multi-mode deidentification.

• 'obfuscate': Replace the values with random values.
• 'mask_same_length_chars': Replace the name with the asterix with same length minus two plus brackets on both end.
• 'mask_entity_labels': Replace the values with the entity value.
• 'mask_fixed_length_chars': Replace the name with the asterix with fixed length. You should also invoke "setFixedMaskLength()"
• 'mask_entity_labels_without_brackets': Replace the values with the entity value without brackets.
• 'mask_same_length_chars_without_brackets': Replace the name with the asterix with same length without brackets.
• 'skip': Skip the entities (intact)

The entities which have not been given in dictionary will deidentify according to setMode()

Example:

deidAnnotator
.setMode("mask")
.setSelectiveObfuscationModes(Map(
    "OBFUSCATE" -> Array("PHONE", "email"),
    "mask_entity_labels" -> Array("NAME", "CITY"),
    "skip" -> Array("id", "idnum"),
    "mask_same_length_chars" -> Array("fax"),
    "mask_fixed_length_chars" -> Array("zip")
))
.setFixedMaskLength(4)

Sets the static obfuscation pairs. Each pair should contain three elements: original, entity type, and fake. The pairs must have exactly 3 elements: [original, entityType, fake].

The mode to use if the date is not formatted. Options: [mask, obfuscate, skip] Default: obfuscate

Sets the value of useShiftDays. Whether to use the random shift day when the document has this in its metadata. DocumentHashCoder can create 'dateshift' based on the document. Default: false

A resource containing static obfuscation pairs. Each pair should contain three elements: original, entity type, and fake.

The mode to use if the date is not formatted. Options: [mask, obfuscate, skip] Default: obfuscate

Whether to use the random shift day when the document has this in its metadata. DocumentHashCoder can create 'dateshift' based on the document. Default: false