TruePrivacy + Google Drive
Discover personal data in Google Drive documents and sheets.
Overview
Google Drive stores documents, spreadsheets, and files that often contain personal data — customer lists, HR records, contracts, and reports. TruePrivacy connects to Google Drive via OAuth 2.0 to scan files and Sheets for personal data, helping organizations govern unstructured data stores that are often overlooked in compliance programmes.
The integration is particularly useful for discovering personal data in spreadsheets that have accumulated over time — customer tracking sheets, HR contact lists, event attendee files — and bringing this data under governance control.
What TruePrivacy can do
Data types accessed
- •Google Sheets data
- •Google Docs content
- •Uploaded CSV and Excel files
- •PDF documents with personal data
- •Form response spreadsheets
DSR capabilities
- Identify Drive files containing a specific data subject's data
- Flag files for manual deletion or anonymisation
- Classify personal data by category across discovered files
How it works
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Connect TruePrivacy to Google Drive via OAuth 2.0, selecting the Drive files scope.
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TruePrivacy scans Google Sheets, Google Docs, and uploaded files for personal data patterns.
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Discovered files with personal data are classified and added to your data inventory with file-level granularity.
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Remediation actions (delete, move, restrict sharing) can be triggered from TruePrivacy's remediation workflow.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. TruePrivacy can scan both personal My Drive and Shared Drives (Team Drives) depending on the OAuth scopes and the user account used for the connection. We recommend connecting a Google Workspace admin account to maximize scanning coverage.
TruePrivacy can trigger deletion of specific files as part of a remediation workflow, subject to the permissions of the connected account. File deletion is a manual approval step by default — TruePrivacy flags the files and a human reviewer approves the deletion action.
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