Privacy Scanner analyzes photos, PDFs, and documents on your Mac to uncover embedded personal identifiers from 25+ countries, GPS data, edit histories, and AI provenance markers from tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. It runs completely offline with no uploads. Users can strip metadata, redact PII, and generate EU AI Act compliance reports in PDF or CSV. It is designed for individuals and professionals needing to protect privacy and meet regulatory requirements for labeled AI content.
In the Productivity & Work space, Privacy Scanner takes a focused approach. It focuses on discovering and removing hidden personal data, location metadata, and AI-generation markers from local files before sharing. Privacy Scanner is a consumer product aimed at privacy-conscious Mac users. Pricing is paid. It runs on iOS, embeddable surfaces, and macOS.
It is developed by Matthias Stralman (United States), and the product first shipped in 2026. Among its 6 catalogued features are PII Detection, Metadata Removal, and AI Content Markers.
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the eu starts requiring ai content to be labeled on august 2. i built a mac app that reads those markers in your own files, fully offline verified by the PulseGate indexer
the eu starts requiring ai content to be labeled on august 2. i built a mac app that reads those markers in your own files, fully offline verified by the PulseGate indexer
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