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An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 5 stories, 9 comments · first 2019-08-27 · latest 2026-01-14

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  1. …to PII is a big "no" in my book. On PII, if you need LLMs to work on production extracted data then https://github.com/microsoft/presidio is a pretty good tool to redact PII. Still needs a bit of an audit but as a first pass does a…
    comment by fhub · 2026-01-14 · in Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
  2. I wonder if this would have been useful https://github.com/microsoft/presidio - its heavy but looks really good. There is a lite version..
    comment by willwade · 2025-12-11 · in Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them
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    Microsoft-Presidio: Mask Names, Credit Cards, and More in Your Data
    story by bakigul · 2025-10-25 · 0 comments
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    Presidio – Data Protection and De-Identification SDK (2019)
    story by mmarian · 2025-05-04 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Eunomia, Open Source Data Governance for LLM-Based Applications
    story by pvalfre · 2024-12-26 · 0 comments
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    Presidio – Data Protection and De-Identification SDK
    story by plurby · 2024-03-04 · 0 comments
  7. I wonder what SOTA open-source PII stripping libraries there are? Something like https://github.com/microsoft/presidio for stripping out PII might fill the role I expected https://github.com/capeprivacy/private-ai to do.
    comment by luke-stanley · 2023-06-27 · in Show HN: Cape API – Keep your sensitive data private while using GPT-4
  8. …a developer to easily add support for new PII entities using code, regex or black-lists. See hree: https://github.com/microsoft/presidio/blob/master/docs/custo... As for the productization aspect, we did some performance tests and are…
    comment by omri374 · 2019-08-28 · in Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
  9. So you might have more fun with this email one https://github.com/microsoft/presidio/blob/master/presidio-a... :) ... seriously, they should have broken that down, or used the multi-line with comments pattern, if they really want people to…
    comment by gcbw3 · 2019-08-27 · in Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
  10. They also have a NLP engine, the regexes are just predefined recognizers for known formats. https://github.com/microsoft/presidio/tree/master/presidio-a...
    comment by m00x · 2019-08-27 · in Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
  11. answering myself, yes. It is a pile of regex https://github.com/microsoft/presidio/blob/master/presidio-a... and i can't find the body of test data easily... that's not good.
    comment by gcbw3 · 2019-08-27 · in Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
  12. …fair, there are different levels of detection [1], the demo is probably using the weakest one. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/presidio/blob/74ea983cc50ff76d7...
    comment by ht85 · 2019-08-27 · in Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
  13. License: MIT Demo: https://presidio-demo.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/ Documentation: https://github.com/microsoft/presidio/blob/master/docs/index...
    comment by yarapavan · 2019-08-27 · in Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
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    Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
    story by yarapavan · 2019-08-27 · 20 comments