For years, HIPAA compliance was straightforward: protect the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, and you protect the organization. In 2026 and beyond, that approach no longer works. The real risk has shifted to the messy, unstructured “Dark Data” surrounding the EHR. Protected Health Information (PHI) now leaks into email attachments, billing exports, shared drives, and increasingly, AI workflows. In the … Read More
Use AI Without Violating Data Privacy Laws (2026 Guide)
2026 was supposed to be the “Year of the AI Agent,” where Large Language Models (LLMs) handle everything from corporate research to automated customer support. However, for many organizations, that promise has been stalled by a sobering technical truth: AI bots are data sponges. Whether your team is summarizing documents in ChatGPT, analyzing datasets in Copilot, or fine-tuning a proprietary … Read More
Self-Hosted Unaffected by Global Cloudflare Outage
Millions of users were hit by the recent Cloudflare outage, resulting in massive blackouts for countless businesses. Yet, all PII Tools users remained untouched. This is how “going self-hosted” keeps you in the game. Cloudflare Outage On November 18, 2025, the global online world was suddenly struck with widespread disconnections. Thousands of popular websites were rendered useless, including everything from … Read More
The Human Factor: The Perfect Employee Training
Part 2 of 3: Reducing Data Leaks + Data Security Awareness Employees are responsible for 90% of all data breaches! That’s why Part 1 of this mini-series discusses the basics of data leaks, while Part 2 tackles the source of the problem: Human error. This is the last employee training you’ll ever need! 1. Intro to Information Security All employees … Read More
Data Loss Prevention: 3 Basic Steps to Data Protection
$4.44 million. That’s the average cost of a data loss instance in 2025. Unless you’ve got that kind of cash just lying around, taking steps toward Data Loss Prevention will be your best option. But who’s keeping your data safe? Intro to Data Loss Prevention Before you get anywhere near avoiding that 4-million-dollar “hit” to the yearly budget, you first … Read More
Can AI Accurately Identify Person Names in Text?
Detecting person names correctly while avoiding false positives is a real time-saver for breach investigations, DSARs, and regulatory compliance. But can this process be automated with AI? Let’s find out. Person Name Identifiers A person name identifier is any information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify an individual, with their actual name being the primary example. Use … Read More
