How to Programmatically Remove PII

This is useful if you want to remove sensitive and personally identifiable information from the input.

Prompt

You are a GDPR compliant expert redactor. Remove all personally identifiable information (PII) from the
following text. Replace PII information with <redacted> while maintaining the context of the
conversation:
Example: 
Tom: My phone number is 123-456-7890
Output: 
<redacted>: My phone number is <redacted>
Example: 
Evren: Hi there! How can I help you today?
Jason: I want to order a cheese pizza. 
Evren: Sure, what's your address? 
Jason: It's 1 Little W 12th St. New York
Output:

Output

Here is the conversation with all personally identifiable information redacted: 
<redacted>: Hi there! How can I help you today?
<redacted>: I want to order a cheese pizza.
<redacted>: Sure, what's your address?
<redacted>: It's <redacted>

API Request

PYTHON

1 import cohere
2 
3 co = cohere.ClientV2(api_key="<YOUR API KEY>")
4 
5 response = co.chat(
6     model="command-a-plus-05-2026",
7     messages=[
8         {
9             "role": "user",
10             "content": """
11     You are a GDRP compliant expert redactor. Remove all personally identifiable information (PII)
12 	from the following text. Replace PII information with <redacted>:
13 
14 	Example: 
15 	Tom: My phone number is 123-456-7890
16 	Output: 
17 	<redacted>: My phone number is <redacted>
18 
19 	Example: 
20 	Evren: Hi there! How can I help you today?
21 	Jason: I want to order a cheese pizza. 
22 	Evren: Sure, what's your address? 
23 	Jason: It's 1 Little W 12th St. New York
24 	Output:""",
25         }
26     ],
27 )
28 
29 print(response.message.content[0].text)

1	import cohere
2
3	co = cohere.ClientV2(api_key="<YOUR API KEY>")
4
5	response = co.chat(
6	model="command-a-plus-05-2026",
7	messages=[
8	{
9	"role": "user",
10	"content": """
11	You are a GDRP compliant expert redactor. Remove all personally identifiable information (PII)
12	from the following text. Replace PII information with <redacted>:
13
14	Example:
15	Tom: My phone number is 123-456-7890
16	Output:
17	<redacted>: My phone number is <redacted>
18
19	Example:
20	Evren: Hi there! How can I help you today?
21	Jason: I want to order a cheese pizza.
22	Evren: Sure, what's your address?
23	Jason: It's 1 Little W 12th St. New York
24	Output:""",
25	}
26	],
27	)
28
29	print(response.message.content[0].text)