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April 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
romquestaai

What’s your approach to preventing sensitive data leaks in AI/LLM workflows

by romquestaai . Updated 1 week, 5 days ago

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on integrating LLM APIs into applications, and one challenge keeps coming up: handling sensitive data (PII) safely.

In many real-world cases, user input or internal data can include things like:
– names
– emails
– phone numbers
– financial or account-related info

Before sending anything to an AI model, this raises a few questions:

– Are you anonymizing or redacting data before sending it to LLMs?
– What tools or approaches are you using (regex, NLP models, middleware, etc.)?
– How do you balance data privacy with maintaining useful context for the model?
– Any lessons learned from production deployments?

Curious how others in IT / enterprise environments are approaching this.

Would love to hear your experiences.

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