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# Leakages

Personal and sensitive data going to logs or console without masking or encryption can expose the data to unauthorised access. This is an important use-case for Security and Data Protection teams.

Privado helps you track such harmful data leakages.

Directory `rules/leakages/logs/`:

```
|__rules
   |  |__leakages
   |  |  |__logs
   |  |     |__java.yaml
   |  |     |__python.yaml
   |  |     |__default.yaml
```