There are so many regulations nowadays — CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA — regarding information protection, and many new ones to come, that it’s hard to be up to date with everything that comes with it. We can’t ignore it anymore, hence finding a way to deal with it is a must.

Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention helps you scratch the surface on what those regulations are about, by automatically discovering sensitive data everywhere.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in general is a broad field and has a lot of great features. We won’t be covering the details of DLP here but there is plenty of excellent literature upon it found elsewhere. What we will look at is the Google Cloud DLP and BigQuery integration.