Insights

What we learn putting regulated data to work with AI.

Articles from the team: what a ruling means for sending data to an AI model, how a method holds up under test, and what we have built and why.

  1. Research ·

    Is your de-identified data still any good? Evaluating dataset usefulness

    Run the same analyses on the de-identified copy and the original, then compare the answers – and check the privacy risk in the same review.

    8 min read

  2. Engineering ·

    How can teams test for bypasses around an AI de-identification layer?

    A de-identification layer protects only the traffic routed through it. Test every route a prompt can take, not just the detector.

    5 min read

  3. Regulation ·

    How can teams safely send customer data to an LLM?

    Approve one task and one data flow, keep the key that reverses the twins in your own environment, and test the detector on your own text.

    7 min read

  4. Regulation ·

    Swapping names isn’t enough: getting pseudonymised data approved for an LLM

    Pseudonymised data stays personal data while you hold the key. A committee approving it for an LLM needs written evidence on seven points.

    6 min read

  5. Research ·

    How do masking, tokenisation and pseudonymisation change an LLM prompt?

    The right de-identification method depends on what the prompt needs.

    6 min read

  6. Research ·

    Masking, tokenisation and semantic pseudonymisation for LLMs

    Masking deletes values, tokenisation swaps in labels and semantic pseudonymisation gives realistic stand-ins the model can still reason with.

    9 min read