Your tools shouldn't be able to fire you

Description and use

Mask removes personal data before it leaves the user’s machine, preventing account suspension and data leakage.

Problem

AI service providers can suspend or terminate user access, potentially disabling developers’ workflows and exposing personal data to third‑party systems.

Outcome

Mask successfully redacted all 36 personal data instances in 15 synthetic business texts, enabling users to keep data local and avoid account suspension.

Workflow

• Identify sensitive personal data in text
• Run Mask in the browser to replace names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses with placeholders
• Paste the redacted text into the AI tool
• Receive AI output without the original personal data being transmitted

Evidence

Mask finds names, emails, phone numbers and addresses in text and replaces them with safe placeholders. Before you paste anything into any AI tool.

Source

We tested it on 15 synthetic business texts seeded with known personal details. It flagged all 36 out of 36.

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OpenAI's Terms of Use say they "reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access" if they decide you breached their usage policies.

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Anthropic's consumer terms say the same, and its usage policy adds that a Safeguards Team runs "detection and monitoring" to enforce it.

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