This page documents production updates to Sensitive Data Protection. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, known issues, and deprecated functionality.
For a list of known issues for Sensitive Data Protection, see Known issues.
Current version: v2
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August 31, 2026
Sensitive Data Protection content policies are in General
Availability. You can
use content policies to evaluate content and return an ALLOW or BLOCK
verdict based on data sensitivity.
For more information about content policies, see the following:
Sensitive Data Protection content policies are integrated with Gemini Enterprise. For more information, see the following:
August 20, 2026
Image scanning is available in the following regions:
europe-north1us-central1
For more information, see Locations that support image scanning.
August 13, 2026
The ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, and OPENAI_API_KEY infoType detectors are available in all regions. For more information about all built-in infoTypes, see the InfoType detector reference.
July 14, 2026
The CRIME_STATUS infoType detector is available in all regions. For more information about all built-in infoTypes, see the InfoType detector reference.
July 13, 2026
If you leave InfoType.version unset
or set it to stable when setting the MEDICAL_ID
infoType in your InspectConfig,
Sensitive Data Protection includes MEDICAL_RECORD_NUMBER
findings as type MEDICAL_ID in the scan results.
You can still use the old functionality by setting