The Presidio Project Joins Data Privacy Stack

Today, we’re excited to share an important milestone for the Presidio Project.

Over the years, Presidio has grown into a widely adopted open source framework for detecting and protecting sensitive data. Along the way, a remarkable community of users, customers, contributors, researchers, and privacy practitioners has formed around the project.

We’re deeply grateful to Microsoft for supporting Presidio and helping nurture both the project and its community. That support enabled Presidio to reach organizations around the world and become a trusted tool for building privacy-aware applications, data platforms, and AI solutions.

Today, the Presidio Project begins its next chapter as it moves to its new home under Data Privacy Stack, an independent, community-driven organization dedicated to open, transparent tools for private data handling.

For existing users and customers, this transition should be largely seamless. Presidio remains open source under the MIT license, and the project’s commitment to privacy, responsible AI, and practical developer tooling remains unchanged.

More importantly, our goal is not simply to maintain the project, but to make it even better.

As part of Data Privacy Stack, the Presidio Project will benefit from broader community participation, open governance, and increased collaboration across the privacy engineering ecosystem. We believe this creates new opportunities to accelerate innovation while staying true to the values that helped make Presidio successful in the first place.

And we’re just getting started.

We’re already preparing the next release of Presidio, with new capabilities, improvements, and investments designed to help organizations build, evaluate, and operate privacy-preserving AI and data solutions more effectively. We look forward to sharing more details soon.

To everyone who uses Presidio, contributes code, shares feedback, builds solutions, or supports the project in any way: thank you. The Presidio Project has always been a community effort, and we’re excited to continue building its future together.

The Presidio Project has a new home. Its mission remains the same.