How I built a PII anonymization gateway for LLMs (and why every EMEA developer needs one)

The problem nobody talks about in EMEA AI development Every tutorial about building LLM-powered apps assumes the same thing: you can freely send your user data to OpenAI or Anthropic. In EMEA, that assumption is wrong. Tunisia is currently examining a 123-article organic law regulating AI and automated decision-making. France enforces GDPR strictly — and LLM prompts containing personal data count as data processing. Morocco is formalizing its digital governance framework. If you're building AI features for EMEA customers and forwarding their data to US inference providers, you have a compliance problem you may not know about yet. What I built SovereignGuard is an open source AI privacy gateway. It sits between your application and any LLM API. It intercepts outbound prompts, strips PII before the request leaves your server, and restores original values locally after the response comes back. The LLM never sees real customer data. Your app never changes beyond one line. How it works — th