Only a departmental network contact can authorize a scan. The appropriate network contacts will be notified to verify a scan request made by non-network staff members. Results of the PII scan will be returned to network contacts, but the information may be shared with system administrators of affected machines and with management in their units as appropriate. (Repeated unauthorized scan requests (e.g., abusive activity) may result in referral to the Office of Judical Affairs or the Office of Human Resources.)

Once the request has been received, SOS may contact you for further details prior to starting the scan.

Under certain circumstances, some PII will not be detected. This scan should not be used as a guarantee that your computer is free of PII. Currently, the scanning software is only available for Windows platforms. If you want to perform a PII scan on a Mac or UNIX/Linux machine, please use Cornell's Spider.