Hush gets US patent for AI that finds and removes employees' personal data exposure

Hush, a US security company, has been granted U.S. Patent No. 12,792,675, titled Technologies for Privacy Search and Remediation, according to a press release. The patent covers its technology for finding, analysing and reducing the digital exposure of people at scale.

Hush sells what it calls workforce protection. Its platform uses multimodal AI and identity intelligence to search thousands of online sources for information about employees, executives and their households, then works to reduce that exposure. The company argues that attackers now use AI to gather this kind of personal intelligence far faster and use it to target the organisations people work for, through fraud, impersonation, harassment and physical threats.

"AI has fundamentally changed the economics of targeting companies through their people," said Mykolas Rambus, Hush's CEO and co-founder. "What once required significant resources can increasingly be accomplished in seconds."