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WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents

Cryptography and Security 2026-03-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Computer use agents create new privacy risks: training data collected from real websites inevitably contains sensitive information, and cloud-hosted inference exposes user screenshots. Detecting personally identifiable information in web screenshots is critical for privacy-preserving deployment, but no public benchmark exists for this task. We introduce WebPII, a fine-grained synthetic benchmark of 44,865 annotated e-commerce UI images designed with three key properties: extended PII taxonomy including transaction-level identifiers that enable reidentification, anticipatory detection for partially-filled forms where users are actively entering data, and scalable generation through VLM-based UI reproduction. Experiments validate that these design choices improve layout-invariant detection across diverse interfaces and generalization to held-out page types. We train WebRedact to demonstrate practical utility, more than doubling text-extraction baseline accuracy (0.753 vs 0.357 mAP@50) at real-time CPU latency (20ms). We release the dataset and model to support privacy-preserving computer use research.

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@article{arxiv.2603.17357,
  title  = {WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents},
  author = {Nathan Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17357},
  year   = {2026}
}
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