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Data Classification

urn:js:virtue:aspire:standard:13.1

TL;DR

All data columns in Snowflake will be tagged with their data classification. This classification will be recorded against the column.

Definition

You must determine the classification of the data that you are ingesting into the data warehouse. Once you have determined the classification, it must be recorded against that attribute (column).

In Snowflake, this must be done using Snowflake Object Tags, according to the data classification tag schema

Exception: Data in the experimental space is excluded from this requirement.

Data Classification Definitions

  • PII-Customer:
    • Highly Sensitive data that is related to a customer of Sainsbury’s Group, whose value has NOT been anonymised/pseudonymised but has been deemed publishable by the Data Clinic
  • PII-Colleague:
    • Highly Sensitive data that is related to a colleague of Sainsbury’s Group, whose value has NOT been anonymised/pseudonymised but has been deemed publishable by the Data Clinic
  • Commercially Sensitive:
    • A data set of any scale not already in the public domain, which reveals Sainsbury’s competitive position; performance; strategic direction; and / or which compromises the data’s commercial value or a commercial agreement with Sainsbury’s 3rd parties
  • Commercial:
    • This information is private to our business (this classification includes previously data previously classified as ‘Public’), in summary will be the democratised data