Privacy Scanner
Find hidden personal data and AI markers, all on your Mac
Privacy Scanner launched on August 2, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,590 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Privacy Scanner audits your files locally for hidden personal data and AI-content markers. It finds personal IDs from 25 countries, GPS, camera and author metadata, and reads AI markers like C2PA Content Credentials. Embedded metadata, not pixels. 100% local: no cloud, no account, no network. Scanning is free, no limits. A one-time $9.99 unlocks fixing: strip metadata, block out IDs, clean exports, signed reports. It never silently strips AI provenance. EU AI Act Article 50 applies August 2.
Find PII, hidden metadata, and AI-generated content in your files. 100% local. Nothing uploaded. Mac App Store. $9.99 one-time.
National IDs in documents. GPS in your photos. Your name in the metadata. Privacy Scanner finds it and removes it, entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. Most AI generators now embed invisible provenance markers in what they make. "this was made by AI" …in plain text inside the file itself. Privacy Scanner reads them, locally, before you post. claim_generator : ChatGPT c2pa-rs/0.28.4 title : "image.webp" format : image/webp instance_id : xmp:iid:4023… assertions : c2pa.actions : action : c2pa.created digitalSourceType : …/trainedAlgorithmicMedia softwareAgent : "DALL·E" Real fields from a real ChatGPT image. Credentials like these sit in plain text inside the file, where any tool, or…from privacyscanner.app
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