The BALMAS blog
Practical guides on working safely with AI: what never to paste, how to anonymize documents, and what privacy law requires.
AI for business: adopt it right — without leaking data
AI's upside for business is no longer debated — neither is the risk. What to do so employees get the tools without your customer list, price book or payroll ending up on someone else's server.
AI in healthcare: the tools without the confidentiality breach
Medical data is the most sensitive data there is — by law and by breach economics. How clinical teams and health-system admins use AI on summaries and letters, without patient details ever leaving the institution.
AI for lawyers: enjoy the tools without risking privilege
AI drafts, summarizes and finds — but every paste of client material into an external tool touches confidentiality and privilege. What the precedents taught us, and the protocol that lets a firm use the tools safely.
Document anonymization: the practical guide
A black marker is not anonymization. The difference between redaction, pseudonymization and true anonymization, the details you must handle (including the invisible ones), and how to keep the document useful — without the identities.
What should you never paste into ChatGPT? The complete list
Every paste into ChatGPT sends data to an external server. Here is the full list of what must never go in, what happens to your text after you paste it, and how to still get AI's help with sensitive documents — safely.