<h1 id="5f075c3f-08de-4edc-8d5a-f8b9fbf8d485" data-toc-id="5f075c3f-08de-4edc-8d5a-f8b9fbf8d485" style="text-align: left; font-size: 32px; line-height: 1.2;">How to stop accidentally sharing sensitive information on your screen</h1>If you share your screen regularly, there’s always that slight risk.What’s sitting there that you don’t want somebody else seeing?It could be an email address. A customer’s information. Something confidential. Or even the title of another browser tab you completely forgot was open.I’ve previously made a video about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.helpwithdigital.com/safescreenshare">Safe Screen Share</a>, a tool I use myself to help with exactly this problem. Quite a lot has changed since then, so when Zahid, the developer, recently showed me what had been added, I thought it was worth another look.The biggest difference isn’t really one particular feature.It’s that protecting your screen can now involve a lot less remembering.<h2 id="f2eba960-ea24-45dd-9373-80318b0eca16" data-toc-id="f2eba960-ea24-45dd-9373-80318b0eca16" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Different meetings need different levels of privacy</h2>One of the biggest additions is profiles.A profile is essentially a collection of things you want hidden, which means you can set up different levels of protection for different situations.You might have one profile for client meetings, another for internal meetings and another for recording tutorials or YouTube videos.That makes sense because what you’re happy to show depends entirely on who is looking at your screen.Something might be perfectly fine during an internal meeting but absolutely not something you’d want a client seeing. With profiles, you can switch between those situations without configuring everything again each time.<h2 id="708ab81f-d441-4c5d-b706-06d1bef0b869" data-toc-id="708ab81f-d441-4c5d-b706-06d1bef0b869" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Smart Blur does the initial work for you</h2>This is where <a target="_blank" href="https://www.helpwithdigital.com/safescreenshare">Safe Screen Share</a> starts getting particularly useful.Smart Blur scans the current page and tries to identify information you’re likely to want hidden.That can include things such as email addresses, phone numbers, locations and other personal or sensitive information. Once blurred, those blurs stay attached to the content as you scroll or zoom the page.It saves you manually hunting around a page for every little thing you might not want somebody to see.I wouldn’t blindly trust any automated tool with confidential information, though.I’d still check the page myself before sharing it, and I’d encourage you to do the same. But having something do a lot of that initial work is useful.<h2 id="995550ab-e9b1-41cc-aff6-8804db5862cc" data-toc-id="995550ab-e9b1-41cc-aff6-8804db5862cc" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">AI Deep Scan looks at context too</h2>There’s now another layer called AI Deep Scan.Normal Smart Blur can recognise common types of information that are likely to be sensitive. But information isn’t always sensitive because of what it looks like.Sometimes it’s the context that matters.AI Deep Scan attempts to understand some of that context too, rather than simply looking for recognisable types of data.There’s an important privacy detail here too. The AI model runs locally on your device.The model is downloaded onto your computer rather than your screen being sent off to the cloud for processing.For a privacy tool, I think that distinction matters.<h2 id="8b55e0f9-62db-4d1a-bbb5-dad8efa3d141" data-toc-id="8b55e0f9-62db-4d1a-bbb5-dad8efa3d141" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Meeting Mode solves the bit we all forget</h2>This might be my favourite addition.The problem with privacy tools is remembering to use them.You join a meeting. You start talking. Somebody asks you to share your screen.And then you start wondering what you’ve got open.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.helpwithdigital.com/safescreenshare">Safe Screen Share</a> has a Meeting Mode designed to remove some of that problem. It can detect when you’re joining something like Google Meet, Zoom or Teams and either ask whether you want to protect your screen or activate protection automatically.You can tell it to use your current profile, run Smart Blur or blur information in your other tabs.That means the protection can kick in when you’re actually likely to need it, rather than relying on you remembering five seconds before everybody sees your screen.<h2 id="1c103a3d-852a-4629-ae7f-608f4d27d097" data-toc-id="1c103a3d-852a-4629-ae7f-608f4d27d097" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">Don’t forget those browser tabs</h2>This is such an easy thing to overlook.You can prepare the page you’re about to share perfectly, removing or hiding anything sensitive.Meanwhile, sitting across the top of your browser are six other tabs merrily telling everyone what you’ve got open.Those tab titles might contain client names, details of systems you’re using or other information you’d rather keep private.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.helpwithdigital.com/safescreenshare">Safe Screen Share</a> can hide those tab names too.It’s a small feature, but probably one of those features you’ll be particularly grateful for the first time it saves you from revealing something you didn’t intend to.<h2 id="508cf256-c845-4885-a9c7-f7e1e1ac1fba" data-toc-id="508cf256-c845-4885-a9c7-f7e1e1ac1fba" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">You can still blur things manually</h2>Automation is useful, but sometimes you know exactly what needs hiding.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.helpwithdigital.com/safescreenshare">Safe Screen Share</a> still gives you manual controls for that.You can click elements to blur them, select specific text, draw a rectangle around an entire area or hide the browser tab name. You can also adjust the intensity of the blur and clear your existing blur settings.The Text Blur option is particularly handy if there’s one specific name, email address, company name or other piece of text you don’t want appearing in a recording.Rather than carefully positioning a blur over roughly the right part of the screen, you can select the text itself.<h2 id="009dab98-e99c-4ef6-8e5e-25dbe3445b5e" data-toc-id="009dab98-e99c-4ef6-8e5e-25dbe3445b5e" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">It’s becoming a privacy layer rather than another thing to remember</h2>That, for me, is the biggest improvement.The original idea behind <a target="_blank" href="https://www.helpwithdigital.com/safescreenshare">Safe Screen Share</a> was already useful. You could hide things on your screen that other people didn’t need to see.Now there’s much more automation around it.Profiles let you prepare for different situations. Smart Blur looks for commonly sensitive information. AI Deep Scan adds contextual detection. Meeting Mode can prepare things when you join a call. And you’ve still got manual control when you need it.It’s becoming less about remembering to hide individual things and more about having a privacy layer sitting between your browser and the people watching your screen.I make tutorials, record my screen, spend plenty of time on video calls and work with client information.Anything that reduces the chance of me accidentally sharing something I shouldn’t is useful.At the time I was shown the latest version, Safe Screen Share had Pro and Unlimited lifetime options, although those options may change, so it’s worth <a target="_blank" href="https://www.helpwithdigital.com/safescreenshare">checking Safe Screen Share here</a> for the current details rather than relying on old pricing.And whatever tool you use, the basic principle is worth remembering.Before you hit Share screen, have a look at what everybody else is about to see.Technology can help with that. Ideally, it can help before you remember you needed it.If you like practical ways to make technology simpler and more useful in your business, have a look around <a target="_blank" href="https://www.helpwithdigital.com/">Help With Digital</a>. That’s exactly the sort of thing I help with.

Safe Screen Share helps protect sensitive information during meetings and recordings with smart blurring, profiles, meeting detection and local AI.

How to Protect Sensitive Information When Sharing Your Screen

How to stop accidentally sharing sensitive information on your screen

Different meetings need different levels of privacy

Meeting Mode solves the bit we all forget

It’s becoming a privacy layer rather than another thing to remember

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