Perplexity Open-Sources PII Classifier for Mac Privacy Gate

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Key Info

Perplexity is open-sourcing the PII classifier behind its Mac privacy gate, which detects personally identifiable information before it leaves your device and lets you choose local processing, cloud upload, or skipping the step.

Highlights

  • The privacy gate identifies PII on-device, giving users control over sensitive data.
  • You can run the detection locally, send the file to the cloud, or skip it entirely.
  • The classifier is now open source, with research paper and Hugging Face model available.
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