TDG Publication Series

Privacy and Secure AI.

A practical eight-part series for federal and regulated organizations seeking to use AI while preserving privacy, protecting sensitive information, and maintaining operational accountability.

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Why this series

AI changes how information moves, persists, and creates new meaning.

A secure model can still support an inappropriate use of information. A privacy policy can still fail if identities, retrieval paths, connected tools, logs, and downstream actions are not technically controlled.

Each article connects privacy intent to architecture, delivery, operations, and evidence so that safeguards become usable decisions rather than abstract principles.

Eight-part sequence

From the first data decision to continuing assurance.

Published articles are linked automatically. Upcoming topics remain visible so readers can follow the complete privacy and security operating model.

Part 1Upcoming

Before the Prompt

Classifying, minimizing, and authorizing information before it reaches an AI service.

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Safe Prompting

Practical rules for prompts that may involve personal, controlled, proprietary, or security-sensitive information.

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Protecting Retrieval and Embeddings

Applying authorization, source governance, isolation, and leakage controls across retrieval systems.

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Identity and Least Privilege for Agents

Constraining delegated authority, tools, credentials, approvals, and downstream actions.

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The Information AI Leaves Behind

Managing privacy exposure in prompts, outputs, chat history, telemetry, logs, caches, and evaluation data.

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Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

Understanding where masking, tokenization, synthetic data, differential privacy, and federated approaches fit.

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AI Vendor Data Questions

Examining retention, secondary use, training, subprocessors, location, deletion, incidents, and audit rights.

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Proving the Safeguards Work

Testing, monitoring, incident response, control evidence, and recurring reassessment for operational AI.

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Designed for

Leaders accountable for information, systems, mission, and delivery.

Mission ownersPrivacy officialsSecurity teamsData stewardsAI and platform teamsAcquisition leaders

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