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AI Safety Reports

SAF03

Release v2.1

Protecting Confidential Data When Using AI

A practical guide to deciding what information may enter an AI workflow, preparing a limited input, controlling access and destinations, and reviewing outputs for unintended disclosure. Includes editable records and fictional exercises for documenting the information route.

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Two professionals review confidential information flows and access controls for an AI workflow.

What you can put into practice

  • Map information flows, copies and recipients.
  • Prepare and document the smallest useful input.
  • Record disclosure authorization separately from software approval.
  • Review access, outputs, retention and suspected disclosure.
  • Map information flows, copies and recipients.
  • Prepare and document the smallest useful input.
  • Record disclosure authorization separately from software approval.
  • Review access, outputs, retention and suspected disclosure.

Where this guidance helps

  • Confidentiality and information flows
  • Task specifications and input preparation
  • Provider evidence and disclosure authorization
  • Confidentiality and information flows
  • Task specifications and input preparation
  • Provider evidence and disclosure authorization

Tools you can adapt

  • Working rules
  • Handling procedure
  • Data flow
  • Field decision
  • Preparation manifest
  • Disclosure authorization
  • Vendor evidence
  • Access review
  • Output review
  • Retention and exit
  • Incident
  • Learning observation
  • Working rules
  • Handling procedure
  • Data flow
  • Field decision
  • Preparation manifest
  • Disclosure authorization
  • Vendor evidence
  • Access review
  • Output review
  • Retention and exit
  • Incident
  • Learning observation

Fictional examples, practical decisions

  • A delivery-analysis task with field selection, input correction and disclosure review.
  • A knowledge assistant that retrieves from the wrong collection, with redesign and unresolved exit questions.
  • A delivery-analysis task with field selection, input correction and disclosure review.
  • A knowledge assistant that retrieves from the wrong collection, with redesign and unresolved exit questions.

Inside the handbook

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Condensed topic outline:
  • Confidentiality and information flows
  • Task specifications and input preparation
  • Provider evidence and disclosure authorization
  • Accounts, connectors and retrieval boundaries
  • Output review and two fictional business cases
  • Retention, incident response and practical adoption

How this report was prepared

AI-assisted educational material with fictional worked cases, editable records and practice exercises. It is not an independent product test or a claim of certification. Source organizations do not endorse the publication.

AI-assisted educational material with fictional worked cases, editable records and practice exercises. It is not an independent product test or a claim of certification. Source organizations do not endorse the publication.

Scope and limitations

Educational guidance, not legal advice, a professional security assessment or certification. No guarantee of security, compliance or loss prevention. All case organizations, records and outcomes are fictional; practice does not establish that a real system is safe or authorized. Removing names does not by itself establish anonymity or remove confidentiality obligations.

Questions before you begin

What formats are included? PDF and Word reading materials, with editable CSV and Markdown tools and practice materials. Do exercises use live systems? No. Use the supplied fictional materials; do not connect real accounts, send messages, make payments or upload confidential records to complete them.

What formats are included? PDF and Word reading materials, with editable CSV and Markdown tools and practice materials.

Do exercises use live systems? No. Use the supplied fictional materials; do not connect real accounts, send messages, make payments or upload confidential records to complete them.

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