Operator and developer, PII Blackout · piiblackout.com
Shuai Shao is the individual developer and operator behind PII Blackout, a Windows desktop tool that finds and blacks out personal data in PDF, Word and Excel files. The vendor's terms name "SHAO SHUAI (individual developer)" as operator, and a DEV.to post by Shuai Shao from May 2026 describes building the product. The website gives no further biography, so none is stated here.
Shuai Shao requested the listing of PII Blackout on this site through the contribute form on 3 November 2026. IDP Software wrote the vendor profile from PII Blackout's public website and listings.
Shuai Shao joins other vendor-side IDP Software contributors who document products they build, among them Neetusha Chal Ravendran of RedactifyAI, a cloud redaction service compared with PII Blackout on both profiles, and Tomer Mozafi of SCANALYTIX.
Contributions
- PII Blackout Vendor Profile: Profile of PII Blackout's offline redaction tool, with its plans, detection approach and a side-by-side comparison with RedactifyAI.