BeeSensible Spell-check for privacy
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Yellow and red highlights

What each highlight colour means and when to act.

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Warning
Names, emails, phone numbers
Critical
IBANs, BSNs, credit cards, API keys
Yellow marks a warning-level finding. Red marks a critical one. Both are yours to handle.

BeeSensible uses two highlight colours to communicate severity at a glance.

Yellow

Yellow marks data that is sensitive in some contexts but not all. Examples include person names, job titles, internal reference numbers, and most email addresses. Yellow is a prompt to be mindful, not a hard stop. Whether you act depends on the context and on your organization's policy.

Red

Red marks data with a higher privacy or financial risk. Examples include BSN numbers, IBANs, passport numbers, medical record references, passwords, and API keys. Red is a stronger signal: review the value and decide whether to remove, replace, or mask it before sending.

How severity is decided

Severity is set per data type, per detection profile, and optionally per app. The same data type can be treated differently in different applications. Your admin configures this. If you are unsure why something is or is not highlighted, ask your admin.

What to do

  • No highlight: nothing flagged.
  • Yellow highlight: pause and consider whether to share the value in this app.
  • Red highlight: review, then use remove, replace, or mask before sending if needed.

The decision is always yours. The extension does not block sending.