Data month 2026-09

SOWA Privacy

Name: SOWA Privacy
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Programming

AI Browser / Web Automation

Protect your data in AI chats. Detects & masks personal data (names, emails, IDs) before it leaves your browser. 100% local.

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According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, the Chrome extension SOWA Privacy has 13 users (+8.3% MoM), rated 5 (1 reviews) — ranked #8,549 of 9,324 AI browser extensions, and #547 of 601 in Programming.

Users · 2026-09

13+8.3%

Rating

★ 51

Overall Rank (9,324)

#8,549

Programming Rank

#547/ 601

What is SOWA Privacy

From the Chrome Web Store

Protect your data in AI chats. Detects & masks personal data (names, emails, IDs) before it leaves your browser. 100% local. SOWA Privacy automatically detects and anonymizes names, emails, IDs and 20+ other types of personal and sensitive data (PII) in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok or any AI Chatbot – before your message ever leaves your browser.

Everything runs 100% locally on your device, no data is ever sent to our servers. Add SOWA Privacy to Chrome, pin it to your tool-bar and start protecting your data.

Website: https://sowaprivacy.ai Privacy policy: https://sowaprivacy.ai/en/privacy-policy Security: https://sowaprivacy.ai/en/security About: https://sowaprivacy.ai/en/about Contact/Support: https://sowaprivacy.ai/en/contact

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1. Type your message in any supported AI Chatbot 2. SOWA Privacy scans your input for personal/sensible data in real time and highlights any found PII 3. If any PII is detected, you will be interrupted by a pop-up window while trying to send your prompt to the AI Chatbot, press "Anonymize" to replace it with safe placeholders 4. Once the AI responds, these safe placeholders are automatically restored to the original values

Example: Before: "My name is John Smith, email [email protected]" After: "My name is PERSON_1, email [email protected]"

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Smart Regex detection – 20+ types of sensitive data recognised out of the box: emails, phone numbers, credit cards, IBAN, SSN, PESEL, NIP, API keys, JWT tokens and many more
Local NER (Named Entity Recognition) model – catches names, addresses, dates, times and domain-specific data like medical codes, product names and legal terms
Power Mode (local LLM) – a fully local large language model, running right in your browser, for smarter, context-aware anonymization
Rules you control – whitelist trusted domains, blacklist sensitive terms and create your own custom regex patterns
Anonymize whole files – TXT, PDF, DOCX, XLSX and more
Built-in dictionary/audit trail – a full log of every anonymization event, ready for compliance reviews
Multi-language UI — English, German, Polish, French

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ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)
Claude (claude.ai)
Google Gemini (gemini.google.com)
Microsoft Copilot (copilot.microsoft.com)
Grok (grok.com)
Any website (configurable in settings)

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All PII detection runs locally in your browser
No data is ever transmitted to SOWA Privacy servers
Open source – audit the code yourself:

https://github.com/Sowa-Privacy/sowa-privacy-chrome-extension

GDPR-conscious by design

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Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance & Legal, Industry & KRITIS professionals handling personal/sensitive data
All companies that need to stay GDPR-compliant while using AI tools
Anyone who values their privacy when chatting with AI