Key Takeaways:
- Anonymize before you translate: Replace sensitive information with placeholders instantly.
- Privacy by design: No data storage, no risk of accidental exposure.
- Simple to use: Add source text, click the Shield icon beside the Translate button, and you’re protected.
- Supports compliance: Helps meet GDPR, HIPAA, and other global data protection standards.
As AI-powered translation becomes central to business operations, one concern continues to challenge organizations across industries: data privacy. With the launch of a new text anonymization feature, MachineTranslation.com is addressing that concern head-on—introducing a powerful new tool that enables users to remove sensitive data before translation begins.
Built for professionals working in law, healthcare, compliance, government, and enterprise environments, this feature allows users to replace personally identifiable information (PII) from source text with structured placeholders in just one click. By doing so, MachineTranslation.com is reinforcing its leadership in secure, customizable, AI-powered translation—and pushing the industry forward with a solution that bridges privacy and productivity.
Whether you’re translating an internal legal brief, a client communication, a medical case summary, or customer records, the new anonymization tool ensures that data such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, postal codes, and dates are identified and redacted automatically. Each piece of sensitive information is replaced with a clearly labeled tag such as [Name1], [Phone Number1], or [Date1], preserving sentence structure and maintaining clarity for accurate downstream translation.
How It Works: Privacy Made Simple
MachineTranslation.com has made anonymization seamless and intuitive. After adding your source text to the translation field, you simply click the Shield icon beside the Translate button. Within seconds, the platform scans the text for PII and applies placeholder tags that maintain the format and structure of the original content.
This process uses semantic tagging, not blunt redaction. That means names, contact details, and other sensitive data are replaced in a way that retains grammatical integrity and logical flow—so that the translation engines can still interpret the context correctly. The result: a clean, protected text that remains fully translatable and contextually accurate.
By preserving readability, MachineTranslation.com ensures that removing PII does not compromise translation quality. This is especially critical for industries like legal and healthcare, where context often determines meaning.
“You shouldn’t need to be a security expert to protect your content,” said Shashank Jain, Head of Technology at Tomedes, the company behind MachineTranslation.com. “That’s why we built anonymization directly into the platform. It’s fast, automatic, and doesn’t compromise the accuracy or context of your content.”
Designed for Compliance, Built for Speed
Today’s privacy regulations—including GDPR, HIPAA, and country-specific data laws—place strict limits on how organizations handle personal data. Manual redaction is time-consuming and error-prone. With MachineTranslation.com’s anonymization tool, users can confidently and quickly prepare documents for translation without needing legal or technical expertise.
The feature integrates with the platform’s privacy-first architecture, which already includes:
- No data retention
- Session-based processing
- Enterprise-grade API controls
Combined, these design choices ensure that users maintain full control over their data and that content is never stored or reused by the system.
“Security isn’t just a feature—it’s a foundation,” said Ofer Tirosh, CEO of Tomedes. “Our mission with MachineTranslation.com is to make AI translation both powerful and practical—and that means protecting privacy at every step. This new feature removes a critical barrier for industries that couldn’t previously consider automated translation due to content sensitivity.”
Context-Preserving Redaction: A Technical Breakthrough
What makes this anonymization feature stand out is its ability to balance data protection with translation performance. Traditional redaction methods—such as manually deleting or masking information—can break sentence logic, making it difficult for machine translation engines to deliver coherent results.
MachineTranslation.com solves this by applying context-aware semantic tagging, enabling the translation engine to process the anonymized content just as effectively as the original. The system can distinguish between different uses of the same information. For instance, it recognizes whether a name is used in a formal closing, a quoted statement, or a legal clause—and tags it accordingly.
This capability is particularly valuable in sectors where sentence-level meaning and consistency are essential. For example:
- In legal content, placeholder tags preserve logical references throughout contracts or case files.
- In medical records, anonymized fields maintain diagnostic clarity and timeline integrity.
- In enterprise documents, placeholder terms keep workflows coherent across departments or systems.
“In AI translation, removing too much or too little can lead to errors,” added Jain. “Our model is trained to identify the right balance—so users don’t have to choose between privacy and precision.”
Unlocking Secure Translation at Scale
The anonymization feature is now live on the English-language interface of MachineTranslation.com and will be expanded to other interface languages in the coming weeks. This aligns with the platform’s global approach to accessibility and compliance.
It is available to all users—no plan upgrade or special access required. Simply visit www.machinetranslation.com to explore the feature, which complements a growing suite of AI-powered tools that streamline and safeguard multilingual communication.
Why It Matters: Real-World Use Cases
- Legal teams can translate sensitive legal documents, contracts, or testimonies without risking exposure of client data or confidential case details.
- Healthcare organizations can anonymize patient records and clinical notes before translating them—ensuring compliance with HIPAA and regional data standards.
- Enterprises can implement secure multilingual workflows across markets, protecting customer data and internal operations at every step.
- Government agencies can translate citizen-facing or internal documents while upholding strict public sector privacy requirements.
Explore the Feature Today
MachineTranslation.com continues to remove barriers to professional-grade AI translation with tools that are both powerful and easy to use. The anonymization feature represents a significant step forward in enabling organizations of all sizes to adopt secure, compliant AI workflows—without the overhead of legacy translation solutions.
New users can try MachineTranslation.com instantly, with up to 100,000 free words—no sign-up required. Translation begins the moment you upload your file or paste your text.
About MachineTranslation.com
MachineTranslation.com is the world’s most accurate AI translator, offering secure, fast, and customizable translations in over 270 languages. Developed by Tomedes, the platform aggregates outputs from leading AI translation engines and Large Language Models (LLMs), giving users access to side-by-side results and quality scores.
Core features include:
- Smart AI Translation Agent
- Key Term Translations
- Segmented Bilingual View
- Translation Quality Scores
- AI Translation Insights
- Built-in Anonymization
With a privacy-first architecture, customizable translation workflows, and Human verification available when needed, MachineTranslation.com is trusted by over 1 million users worldwide—including legal teams, healthcare organizations, marketers, and global enterprises.
