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Acacium Group
AI Privacy Engineering

// PROJECT_INFO

SECTOR

Healthcare

ENGAGEMENT

AI Privacy Engineering

STACK

NER Models, PII Detection, Token Caching

// OBJECTIVE

A major UK healthcare provider needed to use AI services but could not send personally identifiable information to external APIs. They required a reliable anonymisation layer.

// THE BREAKTHROUGH

We built an AI Anonymisation Engine—deployed to their cloud—that uses ML-based named entity recognition to detect and replace PII (including edge cases like unusual names) with reversible tokens before any data leaves their environment.

// APPROACH

ML models identify PII and replace it with anonymised tags. A caching layer maps tags back to original values so AI responses remain coherent when de-anonymised.

// OUTCOME

The organisation can now use external AI services across their operations while maintaining full data privacy compliance.

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