Glossary
AI and data-protection glossary
Check the meaning of AI and data-protection terms before you compare services or plan your project.
ADEGHOPRS
- Audit trail
- A tamper-evident log of system actions, prompts, responses and decisions, used for accountability and compliance.
- Data residency
- The location where data is stored or processed. Check storage, inference, logs, backups and support access separately.
- DPA (data processing agreement)
- The contract GDPR Article 28 requires between a data controller and a processor that handles personal data on its behalf.
- EU AI Act
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU law for AI. Duties depend on your role and the system’s use, including prohibitions, high-risk controls, transparency and rules for general-purpose AI models.
- GDPR
- General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679. It governs how the personal data of people in the EU is collected, processed, stored and transferred.
- Human-in-the-loop
- A workflow where a person reviews, approves or corrects AI output before it takes effect.
- On-prem deployment
- Running software on infrastructure the customer controls, rather than on a vendor's cloud.
- PII redaction
- Automatic detection and masking of personally identifiable information (names, IDs, phone numbers, health data) before text is stored or sent to a model.
- RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)
- A pattern where an LLM answers from documents pulled out of your own knowledge base at query time, so answers can cite their sources and stay current.
- Speaker diarisation
- Grouping speech segments by speaker. Speaker labels do not by themselves identify a person or guarantee correct attribution.
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