# Flagging Sensitive Details Request

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/flagging-sensitive-details-request/219954
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flagging-sensitive-details-request/219954 "2022-03-03T13:11:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Tulika\_Dasgupta](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tulika_dasgupta/32/198350_2.png) [@Tulika\_Dasgupta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tulika_Dasgupta)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flagging-sensitive-details-request/219954/1 "2022-03-03T13:11:20Z")

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Automatic scanning for sensitive information such as phone numbers, bank account numbers, card numbers, OTPs any sensitive information before posting (in product checks). Posts will be delayed for a few minutes to ensure there are no vulnerability scams.

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flagging-sensitive-details-request/219954/2 "2022-03-03T13:21:34Z")

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Enable the ‘watched words are regular expressions’ setting and then head over to Customize - Watched Words - Require Approval and have it trigger on strings of multiple digits.

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### Author: ![SaraDev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saradev/32/335139_2.png) [@SaraDev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaraDev)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flagging-sensitive-details-request/219954/3 "2022-03-29T01:30:59Z")

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If you’re looking for an example of how to implement this using regex after enabling the “Watched words are regular expressions” setting under Admin → Settings → Posting, this topic has some more information:

> [@Support for wildcards in word censoring](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-wildcards-in-word-censoring/26866?replies_to_post_number=7):
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> I don’t know if anyone actually uses this for other than fun but due to inflection it would be nice to be able to use wildcards when adding censored words.

For example, you could use the following to censor email addresses and xxx-xxxx phone numbers.:  
“\d{3}-\d{4}|[\w+-.]+@[a-z\d-]+(.[a-z\d-]+)\*.[a-z]+”

I hope this helps!