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Privacy Scanner is a native Mac app that finds the private data hiding in your files, personal IDs, GPS, metadata, and AI-provenance markers, and removes it, entirely on-device.
In one paragraph
Privacy Scanner scans the files on your Mac and shows what they quietly expose: national ID numbers across 25 countries, GPS coordinates in photos, author and device details in metadata, sensitive images, and AI-generated content. It reads the machine-readable provenance markers that AI tools and cameras embed, C2PA Content Credentials, IPTC digital source type, and generator metadata, the same mechanism named in the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency rules that take effect on 2 August 2026. Everything runs locally with no network access. Scanning is free; a one-time purchase unlocks one-click cleaning and signed reports.
Fact sheet
- Platform: macOS 14 and later
- Price: one-time purchase (US $9.99 / €9.99 / 99 kr), no subscription, no account
- Free vs paid: scanning and all detection are free; cleaning and signed report exports are paid
- Detection: personal IDs (25 countries, checksum-validated), metadata (EXIF/XMP/IPTC, GPS, author, device), sensitive images (on-device), AI provenance (C2PA / IPTC / generator metadata across the major AI tools)
- Privacy: 100% local, no network entitlement, no telemetry
- Trust: tamper-evident audit log; reports export as signed PDFs verifiable with standard tools
- Languages: 12
- Developer: independent, published by Ultimate Clarity
What makes it notable
Browser-based C2PA checkers exist, but they work one file at a time and upload it. Privacy Scanner is the native Mac app that batch-scans a whole library locally for personal data, metadata, and AI provenance together, and produces a signed inventory to support an EU AI Act Article 50 review.
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Screenshots, app icon, and logo for download, coming soon.