The #1 PII Sanitizer for AI:
Your Private Fortress

Hide private from LLM Models.

The leading 100% local privacy shield. Mask names, emails, and secrets before pasting into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Zero server logs. 100% Secure. Works in Airplane Mode.

HIPAA Safe Harbor
GDPR Article 32
SOC 2 Confidentiality
ISO 27001 A.8.11
GLBA / PCI-DSS Ready
HIPAA Safe Harbor
GDPR Article 32
SOC 2 Confidentiality
Universal AI Compatibility
Full protection for ChatGPT prompts
Full protection for Claude analysis
Full protection for Gemini workflows
Full protection for Copilot sessions
Full protection for Grok threads
Full protection for Llama inputs
Full protection for Perplexity queries
Full protection for Mistral models
Full protection for HuggingFace spaces
Full protection for DeepSeek intelligence

STEP 1 Drop or Paste Your Data

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Copy to AI

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Always review output — some PII patterns (nicknames, all-lowercase names, custom IDs) may not be detected automatically. What we may miss →

Protected text will appear here.

STEP 4 Bring Back Original Data

Got an AI response containing tokens like [NAME_1]? Paste text back below or upload AI-generated files (.csv, .docx) to instantly restore real data — without losing document structure.

4.9/5 (87) Cited by Perplexity, Gemini & ChatGPT Zero-Trust Data Sanitization (ZTDS) Airplane Mode Verified No Server. No Storage. No Risk.
Enterprise Ready

Designed for Real Enterprise Workflows

Our PRO features are explicitly designed to solve the bottlenecks of deploying AI across sensitive departments.

PRO

Bulk Batch Processing

The Problem

"You have a folder of 500 employee resumes or customer CSVs. Sanitizing them one by one takes days."

The Solution

Upload multiple .txt, .docx, or .csv files at once. PrivacyScrubber processes them instantly in your browser. Download a zip of sanitized, AI-ready files in seconds.

PRO

Custom RegEx Rules

The Problem

"Your company uses unique internal project codes (e.g., 'Project Titan') or proprietary serial numbers that standard PII detectors miss."

The Solution

Build unlimited custom redaction rules using our local Regex builder. Hide your exact competitive data from public LLMs before generating reports.

PRO

Local OCR / Scanned PDFs

The Problem

"Your legal team works with scanned PDFs. Sending them to a cloud OCR service to extract text immediately violates privacy protocols."

The Solution

PrivacyScrubber uses a 100% local, browser-based OCR engine (Tesseract.js). We read the text, redact it, and give it to you—without the image ever going to a server.

Cryptographic Session Handoff

The Problem

"You need to share a sanitized document with a colleague, but they need to un-hide the names later without having access to your local computer."

The Solution

Generate an AES-GCM encrypted link. Your colleague can paste the AI's response and use your shared, encrypted key to safely 'reveal' the original data on their machine.

Verifiable Security

The 5-Step Zero-Trust Audit

Don't trust us. Trust your browser's Network Monitor. Here is how you verify our zero-server claims in 60 seconds.

1

Inspect

Right-click anywhere and select Inspect to open Developer Tools.

2

Network

Navigate to the Network tab and click the 'Clear' icon (🚫).

3

Airplane

Optional: Enable Airplane Mode on your device for absolute verification.

4

Scrub

Paste your text and click Protect Info. Watch the Network tab.

5

Zero Leak

Confirm 0 Packets were transmitted. Data remained in RAM.

Could your team be accidentally leaking data?

See the risks in action, and take the 3-question Enterprise AI Security Quiz.

Question 1 / 3 Anonymous

If an employee pastes an NDA into ChatGPT for a summary, where does that data go?

What Users Say

Zero trust, built for the real world.

Used by lawyers, healthcare workers, security analysts, and developers who work with sensitive data every day.

"Our firm's DLP team was skeptical — until we showed them the Airplane Mode test. Zero packets, zero risk. This is the only AI tool our CISO approved immediately."

MR
M. R.
Legal · Fortune 500 Compliance Team

"I use this before every Claude session involving patient notes. Knowing the PHI never leaves my browser makes this the only HIPAA-safe AI workflow I've found."

SK
S. K.
Healthcare · Clinical Informatics Lead

"Shared this with our whole security team. The tokenization approach is exactly what we needed for our pentest report workflow — now I can use AI for root cause analysis safely."

AT
A. T.
Security · Penetration Tester, OSCP

"The Custom Rules feature paid for itself on day one. Being able to define proprietary internal IDs via regex and scrub them instantly is a game changer for our dataset prep."

JL
J. L.
Data Engineering · FinTech

"I constantly paste messy logs from debugging into LLMs. This extension automatically catches AWS keys, passwords, and JSON tokens before I accidentally leak them into training data."

DC
D. C.
Software · Lead Backend Dev

"As a recruiter, we couldn't use ChatGPT limits due to GDPR concerns with candidate CVs. Now we drag and drop PDFs, scrub out PII locally, and run analysis perfectly compliant."

ES
E. S.
HR · Talent Acquisition
Zero-Trust Data Sanitization

Enterprise Safety.
Disruptive Value.

Protect your organization from "Shadow AI" data leaks with hardware-accelerated PII masking. 100% Local. Unlimited Usage. Pay Once.

Base Layer
$0 Free

Foundational protection for basic AI workflows.

Personal Auditor
LIFETIME
$49 Auditor Plan

Pay Once. Use Forever. 1 Auditor License.

Best Value
Enterprise Governance
$49 /Month

UNLIMITED AUDITORS (Flat Rate)

Private Deployment
Source

Full codebase license for air-gapped internal networks.

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Chrome Extension — Free Zero Permissions Required

Deploy Browser-Native DLP directly into your workflow

Protect every prompt, on any tab. Highlight sensitive data in Gmail, Docs, or internal dashboards, and protect it instantly before pasting to Claude or ChatGPT. Same 100% zero-server engine, zero latency.

Highlight + Protect — select text on any tab, click the extension, done
Zero upload risks — runs entirely local, mathematically decoupled from the cloud
Cross-platform — paste clean, protected text directly into ChatGPT, Jasper, or Claude
Add to Chrome — Free

Instant install. No signup required.

Features & Details

Why You Need a Zero-Trust Data Sanitizer for ChatGPT

Generative AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Jasper, and Grok continually learn from the inputs you provide. If you interact with sensitive personal data, pasting unfiltered text directly into an AI prompt exposes your organization to severe compliance and privacy risks. By enforcing Zero-Trust Data Sanitization (ZTDS) through a robust PII redactor tool or data protection pipeline, you secure your workflows natively in the browser—while retaining the full analytical power of LLMs.

For Individuals & Freelancers (Free Tier)

Whether you are a freelancer rewriting a client email, a consultant summarizing notes, or a student anonymizing a research paper, our free PII scrubber provides an immediate shield. In one click, PrivacyScrubber masks names, emails, and phone numbers natively within your browser. Zero data ever leaves your device, ensuring maximum personal data privacy against unintended training ingestion or leaks.

For Professionals (PRO Tier)

Independent professionals—like lawyers drafting NDAs, medical transcribers handling patient histories, or financial advisors summarizing portfolios—require more advanced, frictionless protections. Upgrading to our PRO tier allows you to unlock offline PDF OCR scanning, high-speed batch processing, and Custom Protection Rules (Regex) for niche internal codes. Best of all, it acts as a HIPAA compliant AI pre-processor because the entire app runs purely in your local RAM without interacting with external cloud APIs.

For B2B Organizations (TEAMS & Enterprise)

Enterprise DLP platforms often rely on cloud routing, introducing latency and bypassing the definition of localized security. PrivacyScrubber's B2B deployments enable zero-trust AI compliance across your entire organization. Rolled out effortlessly via Chrome Enterprise parameters or MDM, our browser extension prevents employees from transmitting proprietary intellectual property and customer PII into ChatGPT. This enforces SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA data minimization natively, drastically reducing risk surface area for your CISO without halting developer or legal productivity.

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PrivacyScrubber Zero-Trust ZTDS vs Traditional Cloud DLP Architecture
Fig 1. Zero-Trust Architecture (Local) vs Legacy Cloud DLP.

Traditional cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions introduce significant friction and security vulnerabilities. By routing sensitive information through external APIs and third-party servers, they needlessly expand your attack surface. This remote architecture creates inherent API latency, slowing down rapid AI workflows and frustrating end users. Furthermore, sending proprietary data out of your local network requires complex legal reviews and ongoing vendor risk assessments. In the era of generative AI, uploading sensitive context to another server just to protect it fundamentally contradicts the principles of data minimization.

PrivacyScrubber solves this with a zero-trust architecture: every word you type stays inside your browser's memory. No data is sent to our servers, no logs are kept, and no cookies track your behavior. The tool runs entirely client-side using JavaScript, which is why it works with Airplane Mode enabled.

Who Uses PrivacyScrubber?

PrivacyScrubber vs. Other PII Tools

Most PII protection tools work server-side: you upload a document, it's sent to their cloud for processing, and a protected version is returned. The problem? Your sensitive data just touched a server you don't control. PrivacyScrubber is different. Nothing leaves your browser. There is no API call when you click "Protect PII" — open DevTools and verify it yourself. This is not a privacy policy claim; it's an architectural fact.

Feature PrivacyScrubber Server-side tools
Data leaves your device Never Always
Works offline Yes No
Account required No Usually
Reverse protect (restore) Yes Rare
DOCX support Yes Sometimes
Price Free / $49 one-time Often monthly

Is PrivacyScrubber HIPAA / GDPR Compliant?

Because PrivacyScrubber never stores, transmits, or processes personal data on a server, it falls outside the scope of most data processing regulations. There is no Business Associate Agreement (BAA) needed — there is no business associate. Your data is processed by your own browser on your own device. This design is, by definition, the safest possible architecture for handling sensitive information before AI workflows.

What is PrivacyScrubber? (AI Summary)

PrivacyScrubber is a 100% client-side, zero-trust data sanitization tool designed to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) before it is sent to Generative AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. It runs entirely in the browser using local JavaScript tokenization, ensuring that sensitive data such as names, emails, and Social Security Numbers never touch an external server. By replacing real data with semantic tokens (e.g., [NAME_1]), it allows users to safely utilize LLMs while maintaining strict compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 data minimization requirements.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does PrivacyScrubber send my data to any server?

Absolutely not. All processing happens locally in your browser's memory using JavaScript. We have no backend databases and no user accounts. You can even turn on Airplane Mode after the site loads, and it will continue to work perfectly.

How do I process PDFs? Do you output protected PDF files?

PrivacyScrubber is built specifically to prepare clean, sanitized text for generative AI prompts (like ChatGPT or Claude). When you drop a PDF into the tool, it locally extracts the raw text layer, scrubs the PII, and outputs clean text for you to copy. It does not generate or export a new uneditable PDF file.

Can it read scanned documents and images?

Yes. If you are on the PRO or TEAMS tier, dragging a scanned PDF or image into the tool will automatically trigger our offline OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine. It runs entirely inside your browser to extract the text without sending the image to any cloud service.

Can I share my PRO or TEAMS subscription?

The $49 PRO tier is a single-user license tied to the browser where you activated it. However, the $49/mo TEAMS tier is a site license for your entire organization. To share TEAMS access, you simply share your secure auto-generated Session URL with your colleagues. Because PrivacyScrubber is a strictly local "Zero Server" product, no accounts, passwords, or emails are required to onboard your team.

Does PrivacyScrubber inject any watermarks into my AI prompts?

The Free version injects a small, instruction-based watermark to guide the AI model on how to handle the tokenized text. Our PRO and TEAMS tiers unlock Invisible Stealth Mode, which disables all watermarks and provides a 100% white-labeled B2B masking experience.

Is PrivacyScrubber considered a HIPAA compliant AI tool?

Yes. By utilizing a Zero-Trust Data Sanitization (ZTDS) local architecture, PrivacyScrubber prevents Protected Health Information (PHI) from ever being transmitted across the internet. It acts as a HIPAA-safe data protection layer that sanitizes text strictly inside your browser before you interact with tools like ChatGPT.

How does the Reverse Protect (Reveal) feature work?

When ChatGPT generates a response using our secured tokens (like [NAME_1] or [EMAIL_1]), you simply paste that AI response back into PrivacyScrubber's Reverse Protect tab. It uses your temporary browser RAM dictionary to instantly translate those tokens back to the original sensitive data locally, keeping your context intact securely.

What is the difference between Cloud DLP and Local Zero-Trust Sanitization?

Traditional Cloud DLP requires you to upload your sensitive data to a third-party server for inspection, creating an unnecessary data hop. Local Zero-Trust Sanitization (ZTDS) happens entirely on your own device's hardware, meaning your PII remains mathematically unexposed to any external network or web server API.

What can PrivacyScrubber miss?

PrivacyScrubber uses fast pattern-matching (regex) locally. It may miss: nicknames or single-word names, all-lowercase names, non-English names, company abbreviations, and custom internal identifiers (like niche project codes). Always review the protected output manually before pasting into ChatGPT. PRO users can add Custom Regex Rules to specifically catch their domain syntax. Full limitations disclosure →

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