Detection reference · Personal data · Updated 2026-11-03

Street addresses

Addresses vary more by country than any other personal data. Redaxa's rule covers the English pattern of house number, street name and street type; this page lists what falls outside it.

At a glance

Reported as	Street address
Category	Personal data
Severity	medium: a personal identifier with real but indirect harm, such as an email, phone number or address
Replaced with	`[ADDRESS]`
Where it runs	The same engine runs in the Chrome extension (free checks, on your device), in the web check and the Windows app (on Redaxa's server; the text is not stored) and in public repository checks.
Engine rule	scanner.ts, line 201

What it looks like

A house number of 1 to 5 digits, one or two capitalised words, then Street, Avenue, Road, Boulevard, Lane, Drive, Court, Way, Place or their abbreviations.

Example

You paste

Deliver to 1600 Example Avenue, Springfield.

Redaxa returns

Deliver to [ADDRESS], Springfield.

Reported as	Street address
Severity	medium: a personal identifier with real but indirect harm, such as an email, phone number or address
Replaced with	`[ADDRESS]`

All values on this page are synthetic or published specimens; none is a working credential or a real person's data.

In a repository check

The same example, committed to a public repository and run through the free repository check:

fixtures/orders.csv: Street address, listed as a reference, not counted as an exposure (severity info). Test or example value, counted but not listed. Real-looking keys in test files are still reported.
Same value in tests/fixtures/orders.csv: Test or example value, counted but not listed. Real-looking keys in test files are still reported.

Values are always shown masked in repository reports. No key is ever tested against its provider.

What it does not flag

Ship to Via Roma 12, Milano: not flagged. Italian-style addresses (street type first, number after) are NOT detected.
742 Evergreen Terrace: not flagged. Street types outside the list, such as Terrace, are NOT detected.

What to do

Replace the address with [ADDRESS] or a city-level description when the exact location does not matter to your question.

Check before you paste

The free Chrome extension runs this check inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity before a message is sent, on your device and with no daily limit. On the web you get 5 free prompt checks a day with no account.

Add the Chrome extension Try a free web check

Sources

Redaxa engine: scanner.ts line 201. Every output on this page was produced by that code when the page was built.