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Data privacy

Also called: privacy, PII, personally identifiable information, personal data, privacy policy, customer data, data protection, data retention, training on your data

How a company collects, uses, stores and shares information about people. Information that can identify a person is called PII. A privacy policy is a company's public statement of its practices, and the US regulator, the FTC, expects a company to keep the promises it makes there.

For example: A founder wants to paste customer emails into an AI tool. Whether the provider keeps that content or trains on it depends on the product, the plan and the settings, so the founder reads the provider's policy first.

Connects to 36

• Compliance Concept
• Terms of service Concept
• Encryption Concept
• AI use policy Concept
• Local model Concept
• SOC 2 Concept
• Speech-to-text Concept
• BSidesOK Program
• Model provider Concept
• Data management platform Concept
• Tracking pixel Concept
• First-party tracking Concept
• Geotargeting Concept
• Offline attribution Concept
• IRS Section 7216 Concept
• Cyber liability insurance Concept
• Multi-tenancy Concept
• Data governance Concept
• VPC Concept
• Protected health information Concept
• Web analytics Concept
• Signal Tool
• Obsidian Tool
• 1Password Tool
• Apple Foundation Models Tool
• Zen Browser Tool
• Meta Conversions API Tool
• Google Analytics Tool
• Matomo Tool
• MacWhisper Tool
• Federal Trade Commission Government
• FutureCon Program
• OKATE Organization, nonprofit
• Data processing agreement Concept
• Business associate agreement Concept
• AI addendum Concept

This glossary is plain-language orientation, not legal or financial advice. Before you decide on a company structure, a contract, taxes or a fundraising deal, talk with a lawyer or an accountant.