PII Leaks to External LLM APIs in Production Apps
Developers building LLM-powered products inadvertently send personally identifiable information to third-party model APIs, creating GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliance exposure. There is no lightweight, easy-to-integrate layer that masks PII before requests leave the application boundary. The gap affects every team using LLM APIs with real user data.
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