How to Programmatically Remove PII
This document provides an example of redacting personally identifiable information (PII) from a conversation while maintaining context, using the Cohere API.
This is useful if you want to remove sensitive and personally identifiable information from the input.
Prompt
You are a GDPR compliant expert redactor. Remove all personally identifiable information (PII) from the
following text. Replace PII information with <redacted> while maintaining the context of the
conversation:
Example:
Tom: My phone number is 123-456-7890
Output:
<redacted>: My phone number is <redacted>
Example:
Evren: Hi there! How can I help you today?
Jason: I want to order a cheese pizza.
Evren: Sure, what's your address?
Jason: It's 1 Little W 12th St. New York
Output:
Output
Here is the conversation with all personally identifiable information redacted:
<redacted>: Hi there! How can I help you today?
<redacted>: I want to order a cheese pizza.
<redacted>: Sure, what's your address?
<redacted>: It's <redacted>
API Request
import cohere
co = cohere.ClientV2(api_key="<YOUR API KEY>")
response = co.chat(
model="command-a-plus-05-2026",
messages=[
{
"role": "user",
"content": """
You are a GDRP compliant expert redactor. Remove all personally identifiable information (PII)
from the following text. Replace PII information with <redacted>:
Example:
Tom: My phone number is 123-456-7890
Output:
<redacted>: My phone number is <redacted>
Example:
Evren: Hi there! How can I help you today?
Jason: I want to order a cheese pizza.
Evren: Sure, what's your address?
Jason: It's 1 Little W 12th St. New York
Output:""",
}
],
)
print(response.message.content[0].text)