retention policy
Zero Data Retention in LLM-based Enterprise AI Assistants: A Comparative Study of Market Leading Agentic AI Products
Gupta, Komal, Shrivastava, Aditya
Governance of data, compliance, and business privacy matters, particularly for healthcare and finance businesses. Since the recent emergence of AI enterprise AI assistants enhancing business productivity, safeguarding private data and compliance is now a priority. With the implementation of AI assistants across the enterprise, the zero data retention can be achieved by implementing zero data retention policies by Large Language Model businesses like Open AI and Anthropic and Meta. In this work, we explore zero data retention policies for the Enterprise apps of large language models (LLMs). Our key contribution is defining the architectural, compliance, and usability trade-offs of such systems in parallel. In this research work, we examine the development of commercial AI assistants with two industry leaders and market titans in this arena - Salesforce and Microsoft. Both of these companies used distinct technical architecture to support zero data retention policies. Salesforce AgentForce and Microsoft Copilot are among the leading AI assistants providing much-needed push to business productivity in customer care. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the technical architecture and deployment of zero data retention policy by consuming applications as well as big language models service providers like Open Ai, Anthropic, and Meta.
Clear Storage: The Ethics of Deletion Policies for Stored Facial Images
Although the topic of facial recognition is uncomfortable, hearing of its application in a place associated with child-like innocence was particularly jarring to those concerned about the Disney Company violating their privacy. It should be noted that, in Disney's case, guests uncomfortable with facial scanners could opt for a less invasive ticket scan and there are no reports of the technology being implemented in a non-voluntary manner. However, not all companies allow customers to opt out of facial data collection. In July The Verge reported that Lowe's, Macy's and Ace Hardware all currently employ facial recognition algorithms, while McDonalds, Walgreens and even 7–11 are considering using facial recognition in the future. Although that may sound scary, there is nothing illegal about the practice, since facial recognition techniques are unregulated in the U.S. and throughout most of the world.
Amazon Timestream - Time series is the new black
From the earliest days of my career, data, and the insights that we draw from that data, have always held a special place in my heart. At a company like Amazon, getting millions of items delivered to customers on demanding timeframes, and running massive world-wide data centers to host our cloud-based service offerings are all dependent on our ability to understand, process, and analyze vast quantities of data. This is of course true in almost every industry – the ability to leverage data can be the difference between your business thriving or dying. As a technology leader, what concerns me about this is that many companies aren't investing in the right kind of technologies that will enable them to be successful here. Take for example databases, many are still using traditional relational databases for everything, simply because they don't know any other way.
What is the Data Architecture we Need?
In the new era of Big Data and Data Sciences, it is vitally important for an enterprise to have a centralized data architecture aligned with business processes, which scales with business growth and evolves with technological advancements. A successful data architecture provides clarity about every aspect of the data, which enables data scientists to work with trustable data efficiently and to solve complex business problems. It also prepares an organization to quickly take advantage of new business opportunities by leveraging emerging technologies and improves operational efficiency by managing complex data and information delivery throughout the enterprise. When compared with information architecture, system architecture, and software architecture, data architecture is relatively new. The role of Data Architects has also been nebulous and has fallen on the shoulders of senior business analysts, ETL developers, and data scientists.
Employee turnover prediction and retention policies design: a case study
Ribes, Edouard, Touahri, Karim, Perthame, Benoît
Machine learning algorithms are often showcased in customer churn study. Applications in fields such as telecommunication or product marketing (gaming, insurance etc..)(see [1],[2] for a recent review) are multiple. The implementation of these methods in Customer Relationship Management is becoming the new norm, as improving customer retention yields superior business results. We argue that this type of techniques can easily be applied to employee turnover. Note that the employee turnover can actually be subdivided in 3 buckets: involuntary turnover (induced by the company), voluntary turnover (employee resignation) and retirements. Retirement and an involuntary turnover are out of the scope of this paper.