Powerful Features for Complete Privacy
RedactChat combines advanced PII detection with local processing to keep your sensitive data secure while using AI platforms.
100% Local Processing
All detection and sanitization happens on your device. Your documents never leave your computer.
Automatic Interception
Works silently in the background, automatically catching file uploads before they reach AI platforms.
Smart PII Detection
Identifies emails, SSNs, credit cards, phone numbers, and more with precision pattern matching.
Automatic Interception
RedactChat works silently in the background. When you try to upload a document to a supported AI platform, the extension automatically pauses the upload and presents the sanitization panel. This proactive approach ensures you never accidentally send a file containing sensitive information without reviewing it first.
Powerful Sanitization Modes
You have complete control over how your data is handled. Choose the method that best fits your needs, and see the changes reflected in a live preview before you confirm.
- Redact: The most secure option. It replaces sensitive information with solid blocks (e.g., ████████), making it completely unreadable.
- Tokenize: Preserves context for the AI by replacing data with descriptive tokens (e.g., an email becomes
[EMAIL_1]
). This is useful when you need the AI to understand that a piece of information was there, without revealing what it was. - Delete: Completely removes the sensitive data from the text, leaving no trace it was ever there.
- None: Allows you to bypass sanitization for a specific file if you've determined it's safe to upload as-is.
100% Local and Private by Design
Your privacy is our top priority. All file reading, PII detection, and sanitization happens exclusively within your browser on your own machine. Your documents, in their original or sanitized forms, are never sent to RedactChat's servers or any other third party. What happens on your computer stays on your computer.
Comprehensive PII Detection
RedactChat uses a robust set of patterns to automatically identify a wide range of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including:
- Email Addresses: Detects all standard email formats across any domain
- Phone Numbers: Recognizes US and international phone number formats
- Social Security Numbers (SSNs): Identifies standard SSN patterns
- Credit Card Numbers: Detects major credit card number formats
- IP Addresses & MAC Addresses: Finds both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
- Dates of Birth: Recognizes various date formats that could reveal age
Configurable and Controllable
Through the extension popup, you can easily customize RedactChat to fit your workflow. Enable or disable monitoring for specific AI platforms, set a default sanitization mode to speed up your process, and view basic statistics about how the extension is protecting your data.