SocietyAI glossary
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The European data protection regulation. It applies as soon as a name, an email address, or an identifier is processed, with or without AI: legal basis, purpose, retention period, and a right of access, rectification, erasure, and objection for the individuals concerned.
In other words
He doesn't deal with the machine but with people. Pasting a client file into a free AI means entrusting those people to a third party without having asked them.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- An AI has caused you harm: where do you report it?
Scam, exposed data, deepfake, unfair decision: when an AI goes wrong, you have options. The right people to contact in France, depending on the case.
- What your assistant knows about you: checking it
AI assistants increasingly remember what you tell them. In ten minutes, see what they know about you, correct it or delete it.
- Copilot: humans see your photos. What about the rest?
At Copilot, humans see your photos to grade edits. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude: who can read what, and the setting to check tonight.
- Data leak at an AI service: what should you do?
An AI service you use announces a data breach. The right things to do within the hour, and what you should never entrust to it.
- The flaw that makes AIs decrypt the secret thoughts of their big sisters
A research paper shows that the encrypted reasoning blocks emitted by major providers are interchangeable between models within the same ecosystem, allowing a weaker model to decrypt in plain text the reasoning of a more powerful one. We explain the flaw and its consequences.
- How France can still close its AI gap in business
In our article of 1 May, we documented France's lag in business adoption: 10% of SMEs use AI, compared with 28% in Denmark. But how can France accelerate its adoption without renouncing sovereignty and data protection? The solutions exist. They just need to be known.