How to explicitly add items to Sensitive Data Shield?

[priyamtheone]

Sensitive Data Shield is supposed to scan my PC for documents that contain personal information and stop untrusted apps and spyware from accessing and copying them. But it identifies supposedly sensitive and personal documents on its own; we can't define them ourselves. How can I explicitly add items to Sensitive Data Shield that I consider sensitive?

[Pondus]

Sensitive Data Shield - FAQs
https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/Antivirus-Sensitive-Data-Shield-FAQ

https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/Use-Antivirus-Sensitive-Data-Shield

FAQ  >>  https://support.avast.com/

[Alikhan]

It's not possible at this moment of time to manually add files/folders to the Sensitive Data Shield.

[mchain]

Yes, that is what I'm seeing too.  Files detected are done by an algorithm.

[priyamtheone]

Auto identification of sensitive and personal documents by Sensitive Data Shield on its own by its internal algorithm hardly serves any purpose. In most cases, it identifies petty, trivial files as sensitive, while the real classified files aren't even detected. Unless the user is given explicit choice to add/delete files, this feature is useless. Avast development team should look into this matter with a different view.