Data Privacy release notes

Release version: Yokohama
Updated January 30, 2025
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The ServiceNow® Data Privacy application enables you to classify sensitive data, remove personally identifiable information (PII) from user data in a production instance, and anonymize data in production and non-production instances. Data Privacy was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.

About Data Privacy

  • Leverage Data Privacy in Now Assist to discover sensitive data in Now Assist prompts and data send to models.
  • Sanitize sensitive data from Now Assist prompts without impacting response.
  • Discover sensitive data from attachments using enhanced Data Discovery jobs.

See Platform Privacy for more information.

Activation and other requirements

Important:
Data Privacy is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.
Activation information

Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy Plugin (sn_dp_store_app). For details, see Activate data privacy.

Upgrade information

Licensing changes enable you to install Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without an entitlement, but you must have an entitlement to run a job.

Yokohama Early Availability

The ServiceNow® Data Privacy application enables you to classify sensitive data, remove personally identifiable information (PII) from user data in a production instance, and anonymize data in production and non-production instances. Data Privacy was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.

What's new

AL/ML Based Data Discovery for Real Time Anonymization
Use AI/ML data discovery using Named Entity Recognition (NER) models to discover sensitive data that does not follow a pattern like name, address, organizations, and more; and run real-time anonymization.
Configuring Data Privacy for Now Assist
Sanitize sensitive data entered in Now Assist prompts to prevent data leakage without impacting the response.

Yokohama

The ServiceNow® Data Privacy application enables you to classify sensitive data, remove personally identifiable information (PII) from user data in a production instance, and anonymize data in production and non-production instances. Data Privacy was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.

What's new

Discover sensitive data from attachments.
Discover and report on sensitive data from attachments.