# Hugging Face — Experimenting with Automatic PII Detection on the Hub using Presidio

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/presidio-pii-detection
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1857-experimenting-with-automatic-pii-detection-on-the-hub-using-presidio

Hugging Face is experimenting with a new feature on the Dataset Hub that uses Presidio, an open-source PII detection tool, to automatically detect and report the presence of personally identifying information (PII) in datasets.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/presidio-pii-detection:

> To help address these challenges, we're experimenting with a new feature on the Dataset Hub that uses Presidio, an open-source state-of-the-art PII detection tool.

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