Every prompt to OpenAI is an international
data transfer
When your app sends "Patient John Doe, SSN 123-45-6789, has a diagnosis of…" to a model in the US, you just moved personal data outside the EU in plaintext. That triggers legal obligations almost nobody handles well.
They cross borders
GDPR (Art. 44-50) restricts the export of personal data to third countries. After Schrems II, contracts alone are not enough: they require supplementary technical measures.
Plaintext
The prompt travels readable. A third party —the AI provider or an attacker— can read it, store it, or use it to train. No control over where that data "resides".
Expensive paperwork
DPA with the provider, SCCs, Transfer Impact Assessment, DPIA, records of processing… Months of legal work before the first call.
The laws, the real articles,
and how Privedge solves them
We cover the regulations that matter. Full article-by-article mapping available in the compliance brief.
The "right to be forgotten" that satisfies itself
The hardest GDPR challenge with AI: how do you delete a user from a model trained on their data? With Privedge, that problem never exists.
"Your users can't be un-forgotten from an AI model that never learned their data. Privedge satisfies Art. 17 by construction."
Compliance built for
your industry
PHI anonymized before it leaves — or processed on the node.
The case file never leaves the node (Edge mode).
PAN out of PCI scope; controls ready for DORA.
Data stays in your jurisdiction, by architecture.
The questions your DPO or lawyer will ask
Without Privedge they have no clear answer. With Privedge, almost all of them stop applying.
Is OpenAI training on our customers' data?
What if OpenAI gets hacked?
Can we use AI with medical records, legal files, or HR data?
How do we prove it in an audit?
Isn't OpenAI Enterprise with zero retention enough?
Isn't Privedge just another intermediary that sees my data?
What paperwork, costs, and headaches we eliminate
The client doesn't hire us to "protect data". They hire us to be able to use AI without spending three months with a lawyer first.
| Paperwork / effort | Without Privedge | With Privedge |
|---|---|---|
| DPA / BAA with the AI provider | Mandatory negotiation | Not needed — receives no PII |
| SCCs (Standard Contractual Clauses) | Mandatory EU→US | Eliminated — no personal data |
| Transfer Impact Assessment (Schrems II) | Formal risk analysis | Trivial or not applicable |
| DPIA (Art. 35 GDPR) | 20-60h of senior staff | Risk reduced to low category |
| EU AI Act — safeguards documentation | High-risk technical file | Detection logs = the evidence |
| GDPR/AI specialist lawyer | €5,000 - €20,000 / rollout | Included in the architecture |
| Audit evidence (ISO/SOC 2) | Build logging tooling | Audit dashboard included |
| Time-to-compliance | 3-6 months | < 1 week of integration |
Build vs buy: real 3-year cost
The DIY "savings" vanish the moment you add maintenance, infra, and risk.
| Item | Build and maintain (DIY) | Privedge Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Initial build | €15,000 - €50,000 | €0 |
| Senior dev maintenance (~0.3 FTE) | €15,000 - €30,000 / year | Included |
| Regulatory updates (lawyer) | €5,000 - €10,000 / year | Included |
| Edge infra (NER hosting, multi-region) | Variable, growing | Included |
| Legal liability | 100% yours | Shared (processor, Art. 28) |
| 3-year total | €80,000 - €150,000+ | ≈ €1,800 |
Nobody builds their own Stripe to save on the fee,
nor their own power plant to avoid the electric bill.
Regulations shift. So does Privedge.
Compliance is never a finished project: regulations, data and models keep changing. We keep your privacy layer current with every shift — like a legal advisor, but at the level of your technical infrastructure.
Laws change
Schrems II killed the Privacy Shield overnight.
"Sensitive data" grows
New formats, languages and categories every year.
Every model differs
Different formats, limits and behavior.
Adapting never ends
And that's exactly what you delegate to us.
How does the architecture make it impossible?
All this legal coverage rests on one technical fact: PII is intercepted at the edge before it leaves. See the flow, the two modes, and the infrastructure behind it.
See the architecture →Notice: this document is informational material, not legal advice. The regulatory references are indicative and reflect the regulatory state known as of 2026. Specific compliance depends on the implementation, the use case, and the review of your legal advisor and DPO. Privedge is a technical measure that facilitates compliance; it does not guarantee it on its own.