Privacy Scanner is a specialized macOS utility designed to audit your files locally for hidden personal data and artificial intelligence content markers. Developed by independent developer Matthias Strålman, the tool focuses entirely on protecting your privacy by examining embedded file metadata—such as GPS locations, camera data, author information, and personal IDs from 25 countries—rather than just scanning visual pixels.
With a strong emphasis on local security, Privacy Scanner operates 100% locally on your Mac with no cloud uploads, user accounts, or network connections required. In addition to personal data, it reads emerging AI markers like C2PA Content Credentials. This feature becomes particularly crucial with regulations like the EU AI Act Article 50.
Scanning and auditing files is entirely free with no limits. For users looking to remediate vulnerabilities, a simple one-time payment of $9.99 unlocks robust fixing capabilities, including stripping metadata, blocking out IDs, generating clean exports, and producing signed reports while ensuring AI provenance is never silently stripped.
Scanning your files for hidden personal data and AI markers is 100% free with no limits. However, a one-time $9.99 purchase is required to unlock fixing capabilities such as stripping metadata, blocking out IDs, clean exports, and generating signed reports.
No. Privacy Scanner operates 100% locally on your Mac. It requires no cloud storage, no user account, and no network connection to perform its audits.
It audits files for hidden personal IDs from 25 countries, GPS data, camera information, author metadata, and AI-content markers such as C2PA Content Credentials.
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