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Notes from where the contract meets  data.

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Privacy • Vendor Contracts • SaaS Contracts
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You Can't License Data You Didn't Disclose

Your right to grant a vendor use of consumer data is capped by what you told the consumer in your privacy notice. Why the bakery cannot sell what it never disclosed.

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Privacy • Data Licensing • Data Retention

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Make Sure Your Vendor's Retention Clock Runs Shorter Than Yours

A clean privacy notice gets quiety broken by a contract nobody re-read after signing. If the vendor keeps data longer than you promised, you're in breach by inaction.

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Privacy • Data Governance • AI

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Know What Data is Being Processed and How

You can't verify what you have not mapped. Post-AI, there is no delete key for a trained model the way there is for a database row. The leverage has to be front-loaded.

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Data Stewardship • Data Governance • AI

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Your Company Should Know Which Agreements Govern Which Products

The stewardship arc, part two: knowing which contracts govern which products — and why duplicate agreements cost you the argument later.

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Data Stewardship • Contract Hygiene • AI

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Is it a Contract or is it a Manual?

The stewardship arc, part three: knowing which contracts are actually contracts and what should be an operational manual owned by the product team.

006


Data Stewardship • AI Constraint Design • AI

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An AI Acceptable Use Policy Without an Escalation Path Just Moves the Point of Failure

The policy question is NOT "can our people use AI". It's: what never goes to a model unassisted, and whose name is on the alternative.

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AI Constraint Design • AI Governance • AI

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Customer Support and a Game of AI Telephone

An error here is a violation not an inconvenience. The FTC does not care that your rep was trying to be helpful.

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AI Constraint Design • AI Governance • Privacy

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Your Engineer's IDE is Now a Sub-processor

Your coding assistant is now a sub-processor. Why it needs to be diligenced and comply with your privacy notices and obligations.

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Privacy • AI Governance • Technology Contracts

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Who Owns the Data in the Age of AI?

Your software vendor’s contract decides who owns the output. Three buckets: input, output, feedback - and what happens to what you generated when the term ends

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