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Data Privacy & Anonymization Platform

Protect sensitive data with enterprise-grade anonymization

Automatically detect, redact, and anonymize personally identifiable information across documents, text, and structured data. K-anonymity, differential privacy, and pseudonymization that meets GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA requirements — while preserving the analytical utility your teams depend on.

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PII entity types
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GDPR
Art. 89 compliant
The challenge

Every dataset is a liability until its PII is handled

Organizations sit on vast quantities of data they cannot use, share, or analyze because personally identifiable information is embedded throughout. Manual redaction does not scale. Generic pattern matching misses context. And regulatory penalties for getting it wrong are measured in percentages of global revenue.

Healthcare data locked behind compliance walls

Hospitals and research institutions hold patient records, clinical notes, and genomic data that could advance medical research — but HIPAA requires de-identification before any data can be shared, published, or used in secondary analysis. Manual de-identification is slow, inconsistent, and does not scale to the volume of electronic health records modern institutions generate. Automated PII detection and anonymization unlocks the analytical value of healthcare data while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Financial data under regulatory microscope

Banks, insurers, and investment firms process transaction narratives, KYC documents, internal communications, and counterparty records containing names, account numbers, tax identifiers, and financial details. GDPR, CCPA, and sector-specific regulations require that PII be minimized, access-controlled, and erasable on request. The volume of data in modern financial operations makes manual compliance physically impossible.

Legal documents filled with counterparty PII

Law firms and corporate legal teams review contracts, litigation documents, and due-diligence packages where personally identifiable information is scattered across clauses, exhibits, and correspondence. Before documents can be stored in shared repositories, used for model training, or produced in discovery, PII must be identified and handled consistently across thousands of pages per matter.

Analytics teams blocked by privacy requirements

Data science teams need access to production datasets for model training, customer segmentation, and trend analysis. But production data contains PII that cannot be exposed in development environments, shared with external partners, or used in analytics platforms without transformation. The gap between “data we have” and “data we can use” is a privacy engineering problem that most organizations solve by restricting access rather than transforming data.

Capabilities

Privacy engineering, automated

Our Anonymization API goes beyond simple pattern matching. It detects PII in context, understands entity relationships, and applies mathematically rigorous privacy transformations that preserve analytical utility.

PII detection across 40+ entity types

Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical record numbers, financial identifiers, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, IP addresses, biometric identifiers, and dozens more. Context-aware detection means “Jordan” is flagged as a person name in a patient record but recognized as a country in a geography dataset.

K-anonymity and l-diversity

Transform quasi-identifier fields so every record is indistinguishable from at least k-1 others. L-diversity ensures that sensitive attributes maintain sufficient variety within each equivalence class, preventing attribute disclosure even when an adversary knows the individual is in the dataset.

Differential privacy

Add calibrated noise to query results or dataset exports so that no individual record can be reverse-engineered from the output. Mathematically proven privacy guarantees that hold regardless of what auxiliary information an adversary possesses. Epsilon and delta parameters let you tune the privacy/utility tradeoff precisely.

Pseudonymization

Replace direct identifiers with consistent pseudonyms that preserve referential integrity across datasets. The same individual gets the same pseudonym in every table, so joins and longitudinal analysis work — but the mapping is stored separately and access-controlled. Meets GDPR Article 4(5) definition of pseudonymization.

Redaction and masking

When the goal is removal rather than transformation, our API redacts PII completely or replaces it with masks that preserve format structure. A redacted phone number shows [PHONE]; a masked SSN shows ***-**-1234. Configurable per entity type, so you can redact names but mask account numbers in the same document.

Multilingual PII detection

PII appears in every language your organization processes. Our models detect entities across 30+ languages natively — not through translation layers that lose context. A Japanese patient name, a German address, and a Brazilian tax identifier are all detected with the same accuracy as English equivalents.

Scale

Privacy engineering at production scale

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PII entity types
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Languages supported
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Processing per document
99.9%
Uptime SLA
Under the hood

How an anonymization call works

Submit a document, text block, or structured data record. Our pipeline detects every PII entity, applies the privacy transformation you configured for each entity type, and returns the anonymized output along with a detailed report of what was found and how it was handled.

The entire process is deterministic for a given configuration: the same input with the same settings always produces the same output. This reproducibility is essential for audit trails and regulatory documentation — you can demonstrate exactly what your pipeline does to any regulator who asks.

  • Entity detection, transformation, and output in a single API call
  • Configurable transformation per entity type: redact, mask, pseudonymize, or generalize
  • Preserves document structure and non-PII content unchanged
  • Detailed entity report for compliance documentation
  • Batch mode for processing entire document archives

Anonymization pipeline

Input“Patient John Smith, DOB 03/15/1982, SSN 123-45-6789”
DetectFound: Person Name, Date of Birth, SSN
TransformName → pseudonym, DOB → year only, SSN → redact
Output“Patient [PERSON-A7], DOB 1982, SSN [REDACTED]”
Anonymized — entity report attached for compliance
Questions

Data privacy, asked and answered

What is the difference between anonymization and pseudonymization?
Anonymization removes or transforms PII so that re-identification is impossible — the data is no longer personal data under GDPR. Pseudonymization replaces direct identifiers with consistent pseudonyms while keeping the mapping in a separate, access-controlled store. Pseudonymized data is still personal data under GDPR, but qualifies for reduced regulatory requirements. Our API supports both: use anonymization when the goal is irreversible de-identification; use pseudonymization when you need to maintain the ability to re-link records later.
Does anonymization destroy the analytical value of the data?
Not when done correctly. Our API applies transformation methods calibrated to preserve statistical utility. K-anonymity generalizes quasi-identifiers to the minimum extent needed. Differential privacy adds noise calibrated to the sensitivity of the query. Pseudonymization preserves referential integrity for joins and longitudinal analysis. The result is data that retains its analytical value while meeting privacy requirements — not data that has been blanked into uselessness.
Which regulations does the API help us comply with?
The API provides PII detection and anonymization capabilities relevant to GDPR (including Article 89 research exemption), HIPAA (Safe Harbor and Expert Determination de-identification methods), CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, PIPA, and sector-specific regulations like PCI-DSS. Our k-anonymity implementation aligns with the HIPAA Safe Harbor standard. Our pseudonymization meets the GDPR Article 4(5) definition. Differential privacy implementations follow the standards used by the US Census Bureau and major technology companies.
How does the API handle structured vs. unstructured data?
For unstructured text (clinical notes, contracts, emails), the API uses NLP-based entity detection to find PII in context and applies redaction, masking, or pseudonymization. For structured data (database rows, CSV exports), the API applies k-anonymity, differential privacy, and generalization to quasi-identifier columns. Both modes can be combined: process a structured dataset with free-text fields by applying k-anonymity to the structured columns and NLP-based redaction to the text fields, all in a single API call.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Every API platform offers a 14-day free trial with full access — no credit card required. You can also test the API immediately through our live demo, which runs against production models. Submit your own text to see exactly how the API detects and transforms PII before committing to an integration.
Can I process healthcare data with PHI?
Yes. The API detects all 18 HIPAA Safe Harbor identifiers and applies transformations that meet the Safe Harbor de-identification standard. For healthcare-specific entities like medical record numbers, diagnosis codes, and provider identifiers, our models are trained on clinical text datasets that include the abbreviations, formatting variations, and contextual patterns specific to electronic health records. API traffic is encrypted in transit and we do not retain customer data beyond the processing window.
How does pseudonymization maintain referential integrity?
Each unique entity value receives a consistent pseudonym within a session or configured scope. If “John Smith” appears in three different documents, the same pseudonym (e.g., “PERSON-A7”) is assigned in all three. This means joins across tables, longitudinal analysis across time periods, and record linkage across datasets all work correctly on the pseudonymized data — without exposing the real identity. The entity-to-pseudonym mapping is stored separately and access-controlled.
What languages does the API support for PII detection?
Our NLP models detect PII across 30+ languages natively, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Arabic, Hindi, Russian, and many more. Detection is native — not routed through translation — which means language-specific entity formats (e.g., German addresses, Japanese names, Brazilian CPF numbers) are handled with the same accuracy as their English equivalents.

See anonymization in action with your own data

Submit text to our live demo and watch PII detection and transformation in real time. No sign-up, no credit card, no data retention.