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Data protection, digital security and the wider costs of AI

How to protect audience data, sources and confidential material when using AI tools, and how to weigh the copyright, energy and labour costs behind the models.

Confidential material and third-party AI tools

Every newsroom, creator channel and communications team collects personal data, usually more than it realises. Subscriber lists, comment accounts, analytics identifiers, event registrations, tip-off emails, photographs of people at a demonstration: all of it can identify someone, and most of it falls under the GDPR when you handle it. The principle that matters most in practice is data minimisation. Collect…

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