Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) is now a part of Sensitive Data Protection. The API name remains the same: Cloud Data Loss Prevention API (DLP API). For information about the services that make up Sensitive Data Protection, see Sensitive Data Protection overview.
Finds potentially sensitive info in content. This method has limits on input size, processing time, and output size.
When no InfoTypes or CustomInfoTypes are specified in this request, the system will automatically choose what detectors to run. By default this may be all types, but may change over time as detectors are updated.
Projects scope, no location specified (defaults to global): projects/{projectId}
The following example parent string specifies a parent project with the identifier example-project, and specifies the europe-west3 location for processing data:
Template to use. Any configuration directly specified in inspectConfig will override those set in the template. Singular fields that are set in this request will replace their corresponding fields in the template. Repeated fields are appended. Singular sub-messages and groups are recursively merged.
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