Privacy Protection Platform, Inc

What Privacy Protection Platform, Inc does

Privacy Protection Platform, Inc (doing business as Protect Privacy AI) is a US-incorporated, privately held company headquartered in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, that builds tools to detect and remove non-consensual intimate images from the internet. Its primary users are individual victims of revenge porn, deepfake intimate imagery, and unauthorized image-based abuse, served through a direct-to-consumer self-service model accessible via a website portal and a mobile application. The company was founded in 2024 by Dawn Hawkins, who has spent more than 15 years advocating against online sexual exploitation alongside survivors, lawmakers, and technology leaders.

The platform's product surface comprises two integrated services. The Takedown Request Service lets users submit URLs of known non-consensual content and has the company submit identity-anonymized takedown requests on their behalf, escalating when sites do not respond. The Content Monitoring & Search Service, gated behind an Early Access program, builds a secure user profile and proactively scans for matches across platforms, including content the user was previously unaware of, while monitoring for re-uploads of previously removed material. An upcoming educational sub-brand, 'Know Your Options,' will provide rights-and-removal guidance without requiring account creation. The core technical differentiator is client-side hashing: images are converted to digital fingerprints on the user's device and never leave the device, so only the fingerprint — not the original image — is stored or matched, a deliberate privacy posture that also constrains the data available for model improvement.

The company is in beta with 1-10 employees and no disclosed funding rounds, revenue, partnerships, patents, or awards. The core service is currently free to users; the firm is gathering early adopters through its beta and Early Access programs, building content-marketing and SEO channels, and has signaled that future monetization could come through paid tiers, enterprise services, or grant/donation funding. There are no enterprise customers disclosed, no named institutional investors, and no public valuation data.

Name

Privacy Protection Platform, Inc

Legal name

Protect Privacy AI Limited

Website

https://protectprivacy.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Privacy Protection Platform, Inc (Protect Privacy AI) is a US-based, pre-revenue company that helps individual victims detect and remove non-consensual intimate images from the internet using client-side hashing and identity-anonymized takedown workflows, currently in beta.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Privacy Protection / NCII Removal Software

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Privacy Management (Consent, DSAR, RoPA) (HDADAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Privacy-Preserving Data (De-identification, Anonymization, PII Redaction) (HDAAALAG), Data Masking, Tokenization & De-identification (HDADAFAI)

Keywords

• Online privacy protection
• Non-consensual image removal
• Deepfake detection tools
• Content takedown services
• Digital exploitation prevention

Headquarters

HQ city

Coeur D'alene

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Free User Service: The platform currently offers its core service at no cost to individual users, submitting takedown requests on their behalf. The company appears to be in early-stage development with beta testing and may be funded through grants, donations, or will shift to a revenue-generating model in the future.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Privacy Protection Platform operates a privacy-first software platform that detects non-consensual intimate images (NCII), submits takedown requests on behalf of victims, escalates when sites do not respond, and monitors for re-uploads across platforms. The platform uses Client-Side Hashing to convert images into digital fingerprints on the user's device, so the original image never leaves the device and only the fingerprint is stored for matching.

Product overview

Privacy Protection Platform, Inc operates as a privacy-focused platform that helps individuals detect and remove non-consensual intimate images from the internet. The core offering consists of two integrated services: the Takedown Request Service (for users who know where their content is) and the Content Monitoring & Search Service (for users who want proactive scanning across platforms). Both services utilize client-side hashing so images never leave the user's device. An upcoming educational resource called 'Know Your Options' provides guidance on rights and removal processes. The platform is built with survivor-informed, privacy-first design principles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Takedown Request Service A service for users who know where their non-consensual intimate images appear online: the user provides a URL and the platform submits a takedown request on their behalf at no cost, escalates when sites do not respond, and tracks the case to completion. Available globally to individuals via the website self-service flow.
• Content Monitoring & Search Service A proactive monitoring offering, accessed via the Early Access program, that with the user's permission creates a secure, private profile so the platform can scan for matches of the user's image fingerprint across the internet, including content the user did not previously know existed. All data is encrypted and user-controlled; images never leave the device.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• StopNCII (SWGfL): Operated by the UK-based SWGfL charity, StopNCII is the most prominent purpose-built NCII removal platform using client-side hashing, directly overlapping with Privacy Protection Platform's core offering and survivor-focused design philosophy.
• Cyber Civil Rights Initiative: CCRI provides NCII victim support including takedown assistance, hotlines, and policy advocacy, overlapping with Privacy Protection Platform's survivor-services mission and education content.
• Take It Down (NCMEC): NCMEC's Take It Down platform provides free NCII removal services in the United States, directly competing for the same victim population with strong institutional backing from a major child-safety nonprofit.

Broad incumbents

• Aura: Aura is a broader consumer digital safety and identity protection suite that includes privacy and content exposure features, representing a scaled incumbent in adjacent consumer privacy territory.
• DeleteMe: DeleteMe is an established consumer privacy service focused on removing personal data from broker sites; while not NCII-specific, it addresses the broader consumer data-removal category with paid subscription monetization.
• Hive: Hive provides AI-powered content moderation APIs that include image matching capabilities usable for NCII detection, representing a broader platform with overlapping underlying technology.

Emerging players

• TruePic: TruePic specializes in image authentication and content provenance, providing complementary technology for verifying image authenticity that intersects with the NCII/deepfake verification workflow.
• Sensity AI: Sensity AI provides deepfake detection and AI-generated content identification, comparable technology foundation addressing the same generative-AI-driven NCII threat surface.
• Loti AI: Loti AI provides likeness protection and unauthorized content detection/removal for public figures, applying similar AI-driven detection to a narrower (celebrity/creator) segment of the same NCII problem space.
• Alecto AI: Alecto AI focuses on deepfake and NCII detection and removal, operating in the same content-matching workflow with overlapping technology stack but different go-to-market focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/protect-privacy-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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