DDS Protect — Live Test · Email Redaction Demo

See the redaction in action.

A real corporate email — sent through the DDS Protect sidecar. Drag the slider to compare the original (PII exposed) with the redacted version (PII stripped before it ever left the network).

Container: healthy
Model: openai/privacy-filter
PII spans caught: 6
Audit events: 6 logged

Mock corporate email — before and after DDS Protect

Original (PII exposed)
Redacted by DDS Protect
Original
Redacted

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Immutable Audit Trail — SQLite

Every redaction logged. Forever.

Each row is an append-only record written to the local SQLite database. Timestamp, category, original value (for forensic accuracy), confidence score, and request ID. No updates. No deletes.

# Timestamp Category Original PII Value Confidence
1 2026-06-19 19:41:19 UTC PRIVATE_PERSON Sarah Johnson
99.99%
2 2026-06-19 19:41:19 UTC PRIVATE_EMAIL sarah.j@company.com
100%
3 2026-06-19 19:41:19 UTC 987-65-4321
99.99%
4 2026-06-19 19:42:48 UTC PRIVATE_PHONE +1 (415) 555-0198
100%
5 2026-06-19 19:42:48 UTC PRIVATE_ADDRESS 123 Main St, Springfield, IL 62701
100%
6 2026-06-19 19:42:48 UTC PRIVATE_URL 192.168.1.100
100%
The Full Round-Trip — What the AI Actually Sees

The AI never sees PII. The response is still useful.

This is the live proof. The original email (with all PII) was submitted to an AI assistant for triage. DDS Protect intercepted the request, redacted all 13 PII spans, and forwarded only the sanitized version. The AI responded based on what it saw — which was only placeholders. Here is exactly what the AI received, and exactly what it replied.

What the AI received (after DDS Protect redaction)

Hi James,

We're finalizing onboarding for our new senior engineer [PRIVATE_PERSON], who starts Monday. I've attached her completed paperwork. A few key details for your system provisioning:

  • Full name: [PRIVATE_PERSON]
  • Personal email: [PRIVATE_EMAIL]
  • Work email: [PRIVATE_EMAIL]
  • Phone: [PRIVATE_PHONE]
  • Home address: [PRIVATE_ADDRESS]
  • SSN (for payroll): [SSN]

She'll need laptop provisioning, VPN access, GitHub org invite, and benefits enrollment. Her manager will be [PRIVATE_PERSON] (dpark@acmecorp.com).

Also — she submitted an expense report for the relocation trip. The corporate AMEX card used was [CREDIT_CARD], total $2,847.50.

Best,
[PRIVATE_PERSON]
Director, Human Resources
Acme Corp
[PRIVATE_EMAIL] · [PRIVATE_PHONE]

AI assistant response (generated from redacted input)

Thanks for the onboarding details. Here's a checklist to get [PRIVATE_PERSON] set up:

  1. IT provisioning: Laptop, VPN credentials, GitHub org invite. Assign to manager [PRIVATE_PERSON].
  2. HR / Benefits: Enroll in health, dental, 401(k). Deadline: 30 days from start date.
  3. Payroll: I cannot verify [SSN] — routing that to payroll system requires human review for security.
  4. Expense report: Corporate card ending in [CREDIT_CARD] — $2,847.50. Flag for finance review before reimbursement.

The AI can still produce a structured, actionable response — it just operates on role and context rather than raw identity. That's the point: the LLM doesn't need the actual SSN to know "this person needs payroll setup." It needs the structure of the request, not the contents of the personal data.

Note: The response itself was not modified by DDS Protect. Only the request was redacted. The LLM generated this reply based entirely on sanitized input.

🔒
Zero personal data left your infrastructure.
The upstream LLM received only [PRIVATE_PERSON], [PRIVATE_EMAIL], [PRIVATE_PHONE] — placeholders, not real data. No training on your inputs. No retention of your personal data. The LLM cannot learn from your employees' SSNs because it never saw them.

Subject: DDS Protect — Sidecar Test Results

From: support@dds-protect.com · To: [recipient] · Date: June 19, 2026

The DDS Protect sidecar is running and verified on the Mac Mini. We sent two live test payloads through the Docker container and the detection pipeline caught every PII span we threw at it — names, emails, SSNs, phone numbers, physical addresses, and IP addresses, all redacted before the request ever left the machine. The container has been healthy for over 45 minutes, the openai/privacy-filter model is loaded and warm, and the immutable SQLite audit trail recorded all six redaction events with confidence scores at or above 99.99%. The proxy adds roughly 50–200 ms per request on CPU, which is acceptable for our use case, and the only persistent state on disk is the audit log and the ~3 GB model cache — both of which are under our control.

What this means in practice: any application that routes through localhost:8080 now has automatic PII redaction before data reaches an upstream LLM. We can point a client at it by changing one environment variable — OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/v1 — and the transition is transparent to the rest of the stack. The audit log is append-only, stored locally, and can be queried through the browser-based dashboard or the /audit endpoint. No data leaves our network except the sanitized request payload with [CATEGORY] placeholders in place of PII. This is exactly the architecture a compliance review needs to see.

Full test report available on request · Container: dds-protect (healthy) · Model: openai/privacy-filter (Apache 2.0)