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AI Data Privacy & PII Management

Adopt AI without exposing sensitive data

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Format
Free course · Self-paced
Modules
12
Built for
CISOs, DPOs, compliance officers, engineering leads, product leaders handling sensitive data

What AI Data Privacy & PII Management covers

A practical guide for CISOs, DPOs, and engineering leads who want to unblock enterprise AI adoption while maintaining data privacy. Covers PII detection, redaction, the gateway pattern, compliance frameworks, and organisational training.

This course is designed for professionals who need to move from AI curiosity to useful implementation. The lessons focus on the workflows, risks, data requirements, governance questions, and ROI arguments that teams need before putting AI into production.

Each module is written as a working guide rather than a theory note. You can read it end to end, share individual lessons with colleagues, or use the module sequence as the outline for an internal workshop.

What you’ll learn

The privacy problem
What actually happens when employees paste data into AI tools
PII detection
Regex, NER, and LLM-based detection with Microsoft Presidio
The gateway pattern
Sanitise data before it reaches cloud AI, re-hydrate on return
Regulatory compliance
GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, EU AI Act, ITAR mapped to AI architectures
Vendor risk assessment
Comparing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft data policies
Organisational training
AI acceptable use policies and the shadow AI problem

Outcomes

  • Explain where AI can help your team, and where it can’t, without overstating what the technology can do.

  • Identify the data, privacy, workflow, and governance constraints that determine whether an AI use case is ready for production.

  • Build a clear business case using operational metrics, implementation costs, and measurable outcomes.

  • Create a practical next-step plan that connects the course material to a pilot, internal training session, or stakeholder discussion.

12 modules

  1. Module 1The Privacy Problem
  2. Module 2Data Classification
  3. Module 3Regulatory Landscape
  4. Module 4PII Detection
  5. Module 5Redaction & Anonymisation
  6. Module 6The Gateway Pattern
  7. Module 7Local Inference as Privacy
  8. Module 8Building a Privacy Pipeline
  9. Module 9Audit & Compliance
  10. Module 10Vendor Risk Assessment
  11. Module 11Training Your Organisation
  12. Module 12Capstone Blueprint

The tools, guides and services that apply this course to real work.

Primary standards and regulators

Use current official guidance for regulated decisions. Individual lessons link further sources where a specific claim depends on them.

Want a review of your AI data flows?

Book a 20-minute call about where sensitive data meets AI in your team. We’ll tell you what we would change, what we would build, and what a first version would take.