Guides
Guides & resources
How to remove personal data before using AI or sharing files with Occlira — practical tasks, answers to common questions, guidance by profession, and a plain-language reference.
Tasks & how-to
- Anonymize text before ChatGPT Detect the personal data locally, prompt with placeholders, restore the real names on your computer.
- Audio redaction software, 100% offline Transcribe on-device, detect spoken names and numbers, bleep them: no upload, no per-minute fees.
- Redact Word, PDF & Excel Remove personal data from office documents locally, with a reversible mapping.
- Remove metadata from a Word document Document Inspector step by step, the author name, and what it does not remove.
- Blur faces & strip photo EXIF Cover faces with a real box and remove GPS/metadata before sharing a photo.
Questions
- Is ChatGPT private? What is stored, who can see your chats, and the safe way to use it.
- Is Claude safe? Training, retention, who can see your chats — and how Claude compares with the others.
- Is Grok private? And is Grok safe to use? What xAI stores, the training switch, Private Chat and the share button.
- Is DeepSeek safe to use? Data stored in China, training and the opt-out, the government bans — and what running it locally changes.
- Does ChatGPT save your data and chats? What is kept on every plan, training, ads and deletion — and how to opt out.
- Use AI without breaking the GDPR Data minimization as a practical pattern for AI tools.
- Shadow AI at work Staff pasting company data into personal chatbots — and how to manage it.
By profession
- For law firms Use AI and share documents without breaching client confidentiality.
- ABA Formal Opinion 512 The US ethics rules for lawyers using generative AI, with a ten-step checklist for a firm policy.
- Attorney-client privilege & AI Can using ChatGPT waive privilege? What US courts say.
- For healthcare & therapists De-identify patient data locally before AI or sharing.
- For accountants & consultants Anonymize client financials before AI or sharing.
- For journalists Protect sources: strip metadata, redact for real, transcribe offline, blur faces.
Compare & reference
- Local vs cloud PII redaction Why on-device processing is safer for confidential files.
- What is PII? Types and examples A plain-language reference to PII, PHI and personal data.