Discover the PII
you forgot you had
The PII Scanner brings Shielk's Canadian entity detection directly into Valdra. It surfaces undeclared personal information across your data inventory, documents, and cloud assets — recognizing 421+ Canadian data types, from SINs and health card numbers to Indigenous identifiers — so you can govern what you actually hold.
more personal data found than businesses expect during discovery
1 Canuckt Data Discovery Report, 2025
Start Free Assessment| Processing Activity | Legal Basis | Data Categories | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Onboarding | Contract | Name, Email, ID | 7 years |
| Email Marketing | Consent | Email, Preferences | Until withdrawal |
| Analytics | Legitimate | Usage, Device | 2 years |
| HR Processing | Contract | SIN, Banking | 7 years |
Find personal data you didn't know you had.
Canuckt's discovery engine scans your connected systems — CRM, cloud storage, email, databases — and surfaces personal information flows you didn't know existed. Average businesses find 3.5× more PII than expected.
Request a demoAutomated Records of Processing Activities.
Law 25 and PIPEDA require documented data inventories. Valdra automatically maintains your ROPA as your systems change — new integrations, new vendors, new data types are detected and logged.
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Request a demo421+ Canadian Entity Types
Detects SINs, health card numbers, driver's licences, passport numbers, banking details, and hundreds more Canada-specific identifiers, not just generic patterns.
Powered by Shielk
Built on Shielk, Canuckt's dedicated PII detection engine — the same technology used to anonymize data before it reaches AI models.
Scans Docs & Cloud Assets
Runs across uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and connected cloud storage to find personal information wherever it actually lives.
Surfaces Shadow Data
Flags PII that never made it into your data inventory — the forgotten exports and attachments that turn a breach into a big one.
Feeds Your Data Map
Discovered PII promotes straight into your data inventory and flow maps, keeping your ROPA current instead of stale.
Canadian-Hosted
Detection runs on infrastructure in Canada and stores nothing — your sensitive data never leaves the country to be scanned.
“Law 25 requires a data inventory we estimated would take 6 months to build manually. Canuckt's data discovery had our ROPA populated and mapped in under a week.
SLSophie LavoiePrivacy Lead · Quebec Health Network
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of personal information can it detect?
Over 421 Canadian-specific types, including Social Insurance Numbers, provincial health card numbers, driver's licences, passport numbers, and financial identifiers — not just generic patterns.
Where is my data processed?
Entirely in Canada. The scanner is powered by Shielk, which runs on Canadian infrastructure and stores nothing it scans.
How is this different from data discovery?
Data Discovery inventories where personal data lives across systems; the PII Scanner uses Shielk's entity detection to find specific personal information inside documents and files, including shadow data you did not know you had.
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