Personal data
Any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person, such as a name, email address, location, or an ID number. Pasting it into an AI tool is processing under UK GDPR, so you need a lawful basis and a tool whose terms fit.
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Processing data so people can no longer be identified, by any means reasonably likely to be used. Truly anonymous data…
Data classificationLabelling information by sensitivity, such as public, internal, confidential and restricted, so people know what can g…
Data labellingAdding the correct answers or categories to raw data so it can be used for supervised learning or evaluation, often do…
Data leakageSensitive information ending up somewhere it should not, such as confidential documents pasted into a consumer AI tool…
Data minimisationThe principle of using only the personal data you actually need for the purpose. In practice: strip names and irreleva…
Data processing agreementThe contract between an organisation and a supplier that processes personal data on its behalf, setting out what the s…
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