obscurProcessing happens on the device. This is not a promise: it is a verified property.
The engine that analyses text has no technical ability to open a network connection, and an automated check verifies this on every release.
obscurIA is a program you install on your computer, and that is where it works. When you open a document the file is not uploaded anywhere: it stays on the disk where it already was. Detection, replacement with placeholders and the final check before the text leaves all happen on your own processor, even with the network unplugged — you can try it. What reaches our servers is only what is needed to know your licence is valid: an account identifier, which devices are active, and which version you are running. Never the content of a document, never a file name, never the mapping between a placeholder and the real value behind it. Not because we promise not to look, but because they never arrive: there is no path in the code that takes them off your computer, and an automated test verifies that on every change.
Privacy at the centre of your business
Stays on the device
- Documents and original text
- Protected text
- File names
- Detected data
- Mapping between placeholders and real values
- Personal vocabulary
Reaches our servers
- Account and licence
- Active devices
- Application version
The principles that govern the product
Text leaves only after a successful check
Before every copy or export, obscurIA re-examines the protected text and tells you what it found. If the check is interrupted for any reason, it warns you and waits: we would rather keep you waiting a few seconds than give you a confirmation we cannot stand behind.
Documents stay encrypted on your computer
The archive and the mappings between placeholders and real values are protected with a key held by your operating system, and remain readable only there. For those who want the detail: AES-256-GCM, the same standard used in banking and defence.
Updates and dictionaries verified before use
Every update carries a cryptographic signature the application checks before installing it, and it only accepts versions newer than the one in use. What runs on your computer is always the product we published and verified.
Signing keys stay with us
The installed application can recognise an authentic signature; producing one requires the keys we hold. Anyone analysing obscurIA would find the verification mechanism, and nothing more.
How the work is divided
obscurIA drastically reduces manual work and shows you every item it identified, so the final decision stays with you. That is why review is part of the process: you are the one who knows the document.
obscurIA takes care of
- Finding personal data across three layers: validated fixed-form codes, sector dictionaries, personal names
- Replacing every occurrence with consistent placeholders, even when the same value appears in distant parts of the text
- Encrypting the archive and the mappings on your computer
- Checking the protected text before it leaves, including data hidden behind invisible characters
- Stopping if the check fails, instead of letting it through
- Verifying the signature of updates and dictionaries before using them
Stays with your firm
- Reviewing what was detected: you can confirm, correct or add
- Deciding what is sensitive in your context — that is what the personal vocabulary is for
- Choosing between reversible placeholders and permanent removal
- The compliance assessment, which depends on the processing and not on the tool
- Legal advice and the role of the data protection officer
Want to check rather than trust? The DPO briefing fits on a single printable page. How it is built explains what crosses the network, where the keys live, and how to verify it from your own machine.