Academic Workflows: Protecting Research Participant PII
Ensure FERPA compliance when using AI for student records or clinical trials. Redact participant PII natively in the browser.
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Zero-Trust Data Sanitization
Watch PrivacyScrubber's local engine transform sensitive Security data instantly in your browser, without any API calls.
Researchers and professors use AI for grant writing, peer review, and student record analysis. Our Academic-Grade ChatGPT extension ensures that participant PII stays within the university sandbox.
Native FERPA & IRB Protection
Processing participant notes or student transcripts in ChatGPT violates research ethics. Our extension purges identities locally, so your findings can be summarized without risking participant exposure. For a detailed guide on AI Privacy Guides, see our resource page.
Frictionless Research Workflows
Summarizing PII protection basics with AI requires a verifiable zero-trust layer. Our extension masks sensitive entities in-situ, ensuring your research integrity remains uncompromised. This matches the security standards we detail in our guide on Zero-Trust AI frameworks.
Verifiable Participant Privacy
PrivacyScrubber processes data entirely in your local browser sandbox. This alignment with GDPR/CCPA standards principles means your lab can scale AI usage without the risk of student data leakage or IRB violations.
Latest Capabilities (v1.6.4): Multi-Line Stitching & Local OCR
PrivacyScrubber Chrome Extension v1.6.4 adds a smart 3-Line Name-Stitching Lookahead to capture names split across lines (e.g. Firstname
MiddleInitial
Surname) in scanned medical/clinical records, NDAs, and PDFs. It also supports Local Wasm OCR & PDF Sanitization to redact text from screenshots/PDFs offline, and Zero-Trust Session Sync (Argon2id + XChaCha20-Poly1305) to share rules peer-to-peer securely.
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No per-seat pricing. No DPA negotiation. No IT portal. Secure your entire organization with client-side PII masking — $99/month flat, unlimited users. SOC 2 & HIPAA ready. Works in Airplane Mode.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about deploying zero-trust AI for Chrome Extension Teams.