Protecting Confidential Information When Using AI Tools
What counts as sensitive data, how to reduce exposure, and questions to ask before pasting anything into a tool.
Topic guide
Privacy and security
What counts as sensitive data, how to reduce exposure, and the questions to ask before pasting anything into an AI tool.
The convenience of a chat box makes it easy to paste in whatever you were working on — sometimes including client names, personal details, or confidential terms. That convenience can create real privacy and security problems.
These guides help you classify information, reduce what you expose, and choose tools and settings that match the sensitivity of the task.
What you will learn
- Classifying data by sensitivity
- Redacting and minimizing what you share
- Questions to ask about a tool before using it
- Keeping personal and client data out of the wrong tools
- Writing a simple internal usage rule