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{% include components/reference-button.html href="/segment-app/iam/roles/#pii-access" icon="media/academy.svg" title="PII Access" description="Use Access Roles to control who has access to the PII identified by your matchers." variant="related" %}
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### Using Synonyms
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The matchers scan data coming from your Sources for PII based on both
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exact-matching (and fuzzy-matching if you select 'Similar to' option).
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As an example, if you have a custom matcher for detecting "credit card
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number", it will also detect variations like "credit-card number", or
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typos such as "creditt card number".
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Our fuzzy matching uses [this public GitHub repository](https://github.com/imjasonmiller/godice)
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to determine if it is a match. However, it will not detect all variations
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and for those scenarios, you can use synonyms. You can add "credit card no",
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"debit card number", or similar variations in the synonyms section.
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![Screenshot of the Synonym used in Custom Matcher.](images/privacy-synonym-in-matcher.png)
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#### An intro to Regular expressions
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Custom Matchers use [regular expressions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression) (using the [Golang Regex Package](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/)) to provide you great flexibility for your matching patterns.

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