We are excited to announce the container support for pre-built Text PII services for redacting Personally Identifiable Information (PII). This release allows customers with stringent security and privacy requirements to detect and redact PII entities from text locally, ensuring that user data is secure and private.

This release includes both connected and disconnected container options, with the connected container offering both Pay as You Go and Commitment Tier pricing options and the disconnected container providing Commitment Tier pricing, allowing long-term customers to also benefit from cost savings based on their commitment. Learn more about our pricing options on our pricing page. The Text PII container also supports over 70 languages and additional support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai are in progress.

This update provides a new option for our customers to redact PII in a secured on-premises environment and is one of several PII detection offerings in Azure AI Language. In the Azure-hosted service, Azure AI Language also offers PII detection optimized for speech-to-text transcripts (Conversational PII service) and native documents (Native Document PII service). Conversational PII provides better support for inputs like transcripts, chats, and other text written in a conversational style (i.e. text with “um”s, “ah”s, multiple speakers, and the spelling out of words for more clarity). We will be adding more of these capabilities to be supported by PII containers in the future based on customers’ needs.

These services enable our customers to adhere to the highest standards of data privacy, security, and compliance in scenarios such as anonymizing user data from customer support calls, from legal documents, or before sending it to LLMs, helping protect an individual’s identity and privacy in both generative and non-generative AI applications which are critical for highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare or government.

To get started with these updates, check out the following resources:

PII Container Documentation
Disconnected Container Documentation
Application request form for Disconnected Containers
Learn more about the Text PII service
Pricing for Azure AI Language services
Learn more about Azure AI Language
Learn more about Azure AI Language containers

We are looking forward to continuously improving our product offerings and features to meet customer needs and are keen to hear any comments and feedback.

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