Question 1

What is piisafe.eu?

Accepted Answer

piisafe.eu is a free, zero-knowledge website PII scanner that detects 320+ types of exposed personal information including SSNs, credit cards, emails, IBANs, and medical IDs across 48 languages. Results stay in your browser only—we physically cannot access your scan data.

Question 2

Is piisafe.eu really free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The free tier allows 10 scans per hour with up to 10 pages per scan. No credit card or registration required. For higher limits, get an API key from cloak.business or anonym.legal (both have free starter tiers).

Question 3

Does piisafe.eu store my scan data?

Accepted Answer

No. piisafe.eu uses zero-knowledge architecture. All processing happens in-memory on German servers, and results stream directly to your browser. After your scan completes, there is no record on our servers. We physically cannot access your scan results.

Question 4

What types of PII can piisafe.eu detect?

Accepted Answer

piisafe.eu detects 320+ entity types including: Social Security Numbers (SSN), credit card numbers, IBANs, email addresses, phone numbers, passport numbers, driver licenses, medical record numbers, tax IDs, crypto wallet addresses, and biometric identifiers across 70+ countries.

Question 5

How does piisafe.eu compare to Microsoft Presidio?

Accepted Answer

Presidio is open-source but requires self-hosting, Python setup, and ML engineering. piisafe.eu is web-based, instant, no-setup, covers 320+ entities (vs ~50 in Presidio), and includes zero-knowledge architecture. Presidio is better for custom deployments; piisafe.eu is better for immediate compliance audits.

Question 6

Which compliance regulations does piisafe.eu support?

Accepted Answer

piisafe.eu includes built-in presets for GDPR (EU), HIPAA (US healthcare), PCI-DSS (payment cards), CCPA (California), plus 20+ regional presets for Germany, UK, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, and more.

Question 7

Why does piisafe.eu use deterministic detection instead of AI/ML?

Accepted Answer

AI/ML models produce inconsistent results—the same input can yield different outputs on different scans. For compliance audits and legal documentation, you need reproducible, audit-ready results. piisafe.eu uses 317 deterministic regex patterns: same input = same output, every time. Auditors and lawyers require this consistency.

Question 8

Where is piisafe.eu data processed?

Accepted Answer

All data is processed in Germany (Hetzner infrastructure in Nuremberg). No US cloud services, no third-country data transfers. This ensures full GDPR Article 44 compliance with true EU data residency.

Question 9

Can I use piisafe.eu for pre-launch compliance audits?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Scan your staging environment before production deployment to catch exposed PII in test data, sample records, or debug logs. Export results as HTML, JSON, or CSV for documentation. Integrate with CI/CD pipelines using the cloak.business or anonym.legal API.

Question 10

What is zero-knowledge architecture?

Accepted Answer

Zero-knowledge architecture means the service provider (piisafe.eu) physically cannot access user data. Scan results exist only in server memory during processing, then stream directly to your browser. No database writes, no logs, no admin access. Even our team cannot see your scan results—this isn't marketing, it's architecture.

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