Rule set sha256:a7e715b79299

rego-gdpr5-1c-001

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Rulerego-gdpr5-1c-001
Rule version6e723a63a4812216c6a240e4eec1298a8100510902622332a3820d853c6b58e8
ProvisionRegulation (EU) 2016/679, Article 5(1)(c)
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/art_5/par_1/pnt_c/oj
ApprovalApproved
Approved by Leo Celis on 2026-10-22 (via agent review per §5.1 amendment v1.1)

rules/rego/complyedge/data_protection/email.rego

Citation
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), Article 5(1)(c)
Condition
The text carries an email address. An email address identifies a person, so sending it to an AI model (or returning it to a user) is processing personal data beyond what the AI task needs. Addresses at the reserved example domains of RFC 2606 / RFC 6761 (example.com, .test, .example, .invalid) are documentation placeholders, not people, and do not fire.
Layer 1 detects
an email address, letters, digits and . _ % + - before the @, and a domain of one or more labels ending in a top-level domain of at least two letters, in any case, with no letter or digit directly before or after it; an address at example.com, example.org, example.net or a subdomain of them, or at a domain ending .test, .example, .invalid or .localhost does not fire. It matches formats, not purpose: it fires on every such value whatever the task, and it does not judge whether sending the value is necessary for the task (the Article 5(1)(c) test, which this rule does not apply). No model reviews a hit: a match keeps the block in Layer 2 as well.
Condition type
deterministic (format match; no judgment of meaning)
Status in the file
approved