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Life & fun · June 28, 2025

Self-host your data anonymization pipeline

Needed this in my own work, anonymizing PII/PHI and decided to build this because presidio didn't really cut it for our use-case. Try it and maybe let me know if you have any feedback :)

Self-host your data anonymization pipeline launched on June 28, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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A Python package for zero-shot text anonymization using Transformer-based NER models. - deepanwadhwa/zink

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