HoundDog.ai

How It Works

Privacy Code Scanner

Turning Code Scans into Living Data Flow Maps

HoundDog.ai’s lightweight, modern privacy code scanner allows technology driven companies to embed privacy into the development process to catch privacy risks early and automate data mapping and privacy reporting (RoPAPIA, and DPIA).
The scanner replaces the guesswork from data flow mapping with code level evidence that maps sensitive data flows directly from your applications’ source code and dependencies, including across APIs, SDKs, and AI integrations, before anything reaches production.
Many teams use it to prevent overlogging of sensitive data, uncover hidden third party and AI integrations, and detect data flow changes that can violate internal policies or data processing agreements due to silent code updates early in development, including simple oversights such as printing full user objects or passing tainted variables.
HoundDog.ai is trusted by Fortune 1000 companies in the technology and healthcare sectors, and recently integrated with Replit to bring privacy code scanning to its 45M creators, offering instant visibility into sensitive data flows and privacy issues.
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How Privacy Code Scanning Works

Detect sensitive data flows, prevent PII leaks, and automate GDPR data mapping directly in your development workflow.

Scan Code as It’s Written

HoundDog.ai integrates directly into your development workflow to scan code in IDEs (VS Code, IntelliJ, Cursor) and in CI pipelines as it is written or generated.

Trace Sensitive Data Flows

Automatically map sensitive data flows directly from source code across functions, APIs, third party services, and AI integrations to detect privacy risks and support GDPR data mapping.

Enforce Privacy Rules Before Deployment

Apply allowlists to define which data types are permitted in LLM prompts and other risky sinks, and automatically block unsafe pull requests to maintain compliance.

Privacy Code Scanner for Sensitive Data Flow Detection in IDE and CI

Build Customer Trust with Transparent Data Handling and GDPR Data Mapping

  • Automatically generate GDPR data mapping and data flow maps directly from source code to show where sensitive data is collected, processed, and shared across functions, APIs, third party services, and AI integrations.
  • Auto generate audit ready Records of Processing Activities (RoPA)Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), and
    Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) pre populated with detected sensitive data flows and privacy risks aligned with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other regulatory frameworks.
  • Detect sensitive data flows using privacy code scanning to give privacy and security teams continuous visibility into processing activities without surveys, spreadsheets, or manual discovery.
  • No production monitoring required. No retroactive cleanup. No guessing. Detect privacy risks early in development before code reaches production.

Enabling PII Leak Detection & GDPR Data Mapping Across All Stages of Development

Privacy Code Scanner for Sensitive Data Flow Detection in IDE and CI

IDE Plugins

Detect sensitive data leaks directly in your IDE as you write code.
Catch privacy risks early before they reach production.

HoundDog.ai's VS Code Extension
HoundDog.ai Cursor Extension
HoundDog.ai IntelliJ Extension
HoundDog.ai Eclipse Extension
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Automated Data Flow Mapping with HoundDog.ai

Managed Scans

Offload scanning to HoundDog.ai with direct source control integrations.
Automatically analyze repositories for privacy risks.

HoundDog.ai Direct Source Code Integration with GitLab
HoundDog.ai Direct Source Code Integration with GitHub
HoundDog.ai Direct Source Code Integration with Bitbucket
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HoundDog.ai's Extensive Integrations with CI Pipelines

CI/CD Integrations

Use HoundDog.ai source control integrations to auto configure CI.
Block risky pull requests before they are merged.

HoundDog.ai Direct Source Code Integration with GitHub
HoundDog.ai's Integration with Azure Pipelines
HoundDog.ai Direct Source Code Integration with GitLab
HoundDog.ai's Integration with CircleCI
HoundDog.ai Direct Source Code Integration with Bitbucket
HoundDog.ai's Integration with Jenkins
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More About HoundDog.ai

HoundDog.ai helps organizations proactively detect and prevent the overexposure of sensitive data in high risk mediums that could lead to privacy violations. By embedding detection, enforcement, and audit ready reporting directly into the development process, HoundDog.ai streamlines privacy compliance from day one. Its domain specific static code scanner analyzes code from IDE to CI, identifying sensitive data handling risks before code is deployed. Designed to catch unintentional mistakes by developers or AI generated code, the scanner flags exposure of PII, PHI, CHD, and authentication tokens across often overlooked surfaces such as logs, files, local storage, third party SDKs, and AI specific mediums like LLM prompts and embedding stores, enabling true privacy by design at the code level.

Make Privacy-by-Design a Reality in Your SDLC

Shift left on privacy with code scanning. Detect PII leaks, map sensitive data flows, and generate GDPR data maps, RoPA, PIA, and DPIA before code reaches production.