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PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

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Why This Matters

PISIGuard offers a privacy-focused solution for users interacting with AI by locally detecting and masking sensitive personal information, ensuring data remains private and secure. Its browser-based design allows for seamless protection without sending data to external servers, making it highly practical for everyday use. This innovation addresses growing concerns over data privacy in AI communications, benefiting both consumers and the tech industry by promoting safer data handling practices.

Key Takeaways

PISIGuard

Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

PISIGuard: Personally Identifiable & Sensitive Information Guard

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I built PISIGuard because I've been horrified at how much personal & sensitive information people (including myself) are feeding AI on daily basis. It is cumbersome to censor information by hand, so obviously very few do that at varying degrees of consistency. I wanted something practical that will hide personal & sensitive data, and of course without routing them through yet another server. So PISIGuard runs entirely in your browser. It spots names, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, API keys, and more, replaces them with safe placeholders, then puts the real values back into the AI’s reply. From your point of view, it’s mostly invisible; from the AI’s point of view, the sensitive stuff was never there.

All detection, masking, and restoration happens locally. No data is sent to an external service. Nobody sees your messages but you and the AI, and the AI only sees the placeholders.

DISCLAIMER: This software is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.

Features

Catches common sensitive information before they hit the AI servers: names, emails, phone numbers, passwords, API keys, and more.

Masks each piece of sensitive data with a unique placeholder (like John Smith instead of your real name) before the message is sent.

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